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Our Global Issues & Ethics Book Group is devoted to discussing books that cover the most relevant topics of our everyday lives. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction is a compassionate look at drug addiction by bestselling author and physician Gabor Maté. This insightful book explores the scientific and psychological causes of addiction, as well as the impact on the addicts treated at the Downtown Eastside Vancouver clinic where Maté is a physician. He widens the lens to address the larger societal problem—speaking also to the risks of the more "high-status" addictions, such as wealth, power, and sex. He boldly challenges the War on Drugs, proposing a more holistic, constructive set of alternatives. A riveting, debate-provoking book about an illness that reaches all levels of society, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts provides a much needed glimpse of hope from an innovator who is taking on addiction with startling clarity, vision, and wisdom. Norm Stamper calls it, "A riveting account of human craving, this book needs to get into as many hands as possible..."
