Based on Gabor Mate s two decades of experience as a medical doctor and his groundbreaking work with the severely addicted on Vancouver s skid row, "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts" radically reenvisions this much misunderstood field by taking a holistic approach.
Mate presents Addiction not as a discrete phenomenon confined to an unfortunate or weak-willed few, but as a continuum that runs throughout (and perhaps underpins) our society; not a medical "condition" distinct from the lives it aff.
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Based on Gabor Mate s two decades of experience as a medical doctor and his groundbreaking work with the severely addicted on Vancouver s skid row, "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts" radically reenvisions this much misunderstood field by taking a holistic approach