![]() Last May, Trump congratulated Filipino President Rodrigo Duerte for a ‘great job’ in his crackdown on drugs. ![]() “And, by the way, they have much less of a drug problem that we do.” As USA Today reported, ![]() In March 2018, the president of the United States publicly approved of death sentences for drug dealers, “Some countries have a very, very tough penalty-the ultimate penalty,” Donald Trump said. The world’s richest and most influential country, where addiction rates are already the highest despite-and in large part because of-draconian policies, threatens to move toward more ostracism, more violent repression. – Naomi Klein, author, The Shock Doctrine. ![]() He is a healer to be cherished and this exciting book arrives at just the right time. Gabor Mate’s connections – between the intensely personal and the global, the spiritual and the medical, the psychological and the political – are bold, wise and deeply moral. Maté presents an eloquent case that addiction–all addiction–is in fact a case of human development gone askew. ![]() Gabor Maté, with his new book, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts.Ĭountering prevailing notions of addiction as either a genetic disease or an individual moral failure, Dr. It is with great pleasure that we introduce our Author of the Month for October, Dr. ![]()
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