Just finished reading Gabor Mate’s, “In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts” about addiction. Mate is a physician, who for the last decade, has been working as the resident doctor at The Portland Hotel; a refuge for drug addicts in Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside. In my opinion, this is the best book on addiction ever written and I have read a lot of them. Not only that, but I have taken many courses throughout my schooling on addiction and treatment methods and I think that Mate’s words are some of the wisest I’ve ever heard on the subject.