Gabor Maté M.D.

Addiction

Bestselling author, Dr. Gabor Maté joins the show to discuss North America's only supervised safe injection site who has worked for years with hardcore addicts suffering with HIV, Hepatatis C, and mental illness and dealing with addictions.

Gabor Maté M.D. is a physician, author, seminar leader and public speaker. He is a former medical columnist for The Vancouver Sun and The Globe and Mail. His four books, are all Canadian bestsellers and his work has been translated into over sixteen languages on five continents. The most recently published, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction has been a #1 national bestseller and has been awarded the Hubert Evans prize for literary non-fiction and has been nominated for the George Ryga Prize for Social Awareness in Literature and also for the Vancouver Book Prize. It is being published in the U.S. in January, 2010.

For twenty years Dr. Maté had a family practice, and for seven years was Medical Coordinator of the Palliative Care Unit at Vancouver Hospital. For the past eleven years he has worked in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside with patients challenged by hard core drug addiction, mental illness and HIV. He has lectured at several universities and colleges in the U.S. and Canada and has addressed many groups of physicians and health care providers, educators, law professionals, psychologists, therapists, parents, and other members of the lay public.

Dr. Derrick DeSilva

1 / 4 / 2010