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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

by Gabor Mate

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First published: 2008
Pages: 510

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“In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction” is a non-fiction book written by Gabor Maté. The book provides a compassionate and insightful look at drug addiction, exploring the scientific and psychological causes of addiction. Maté argues that the image of addiction as a moral failing is a myth and that the reality of the condition is quite different from what is commonly portrayed in the media.

About the author

Gabor Mate

A Hungarian-born physician who spent years as a family doctor in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, treating people whose addictions were severe enough that most services had already given up on them. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts came out of that work, and its argument is that the useful question is never why the addiction but why the pain.