Six years after I resurfaced from my journey through addiction and depression, my sister sent me a revolutionary work by Dr. Gabor Mate. His book, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, validates from a medical perspective what I lived through experientially. Dr. Mate is one of those rare breeds of people who go where the truth leads them, regardless of the consequences. And in doing so, he has made more headway into the actual causes of addiction than any other expert on the matter.
What I didn’t know about Dr. Mate, was that his research doesn’t stop at the individual addict, he also traces the problem outwards into the global arena, connecting the dots to why the War on Drugs has actually been an outstanding success…
