Addiction And Add

Addiction And Add

"In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts": Dr. Gabor Mate, Physician at Vancouver Safe-Injection Site, on the Biological and Socio-Economic Roots of Addiction and ADD

Dr. Gabor Mate is the staff physician at the Portland Hotel Society, which runs a residence/harm reduction facility and North America's only supervised safe-injection site in Vancouver, Canada, home to one of the world's densest areas of drug users. The bestselling author of four books, we speak to Dr. Mate about his latest, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, which proposes new approaches to treating addiction through an understanding of its biological and socio-economic roots. Mate also discusses his work on attention deficit disorder and the mind-body connection. Ref. Source 9