In the realm of hungry ghosts: close encounters with addiction. Gabor Mate. 2020.

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts is a compassionate look at drug addiction by bestselling author and physician Gabor Mate. 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 Mate 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.