Summary Of In The Realm Of Hungry Ghost

The book “In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction” was published in the year 2008 on the 12th of February by Knopf Canada. The author of this book is Dr. Gabor Mate who has worked for twelve years in the eastside Vancouver with patients suffering from addiction, mental illness and HIV. He is also a renowned speaker and a bestselling author. He also received the Hubert Evans Prize for Literary Non-Fiction and the 2012 Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award for his work. (….)

In this book his focus is on removing the stigmatization attached with drugs, addiction and the addicts. He clearly outlines the problems and the main factors of the society which leads to addiction amongst people. Throughout this book he provides various

Drug addicts steal to full there urge to do drugs. Unfortunately, it’s impossible for an addict to not to do drugs or control his urge if he has an addiction, and complete withdrawing of drugs would lead to his death. Dr.Mate explains this very well in his book with his own experience of addiction with music discs by explaining how the dopamine receptors in a brain of an addict works. Constant drug use also hampers the brain area which is responsible for decision making part of an addicted person’s brain. So the main factor that is forcing the addicts to do crimes and thefts is their addiction to fulfill their urge for drugs and again the reason for their addiction is to escape their pain, there loneliness , lack of affection love and severe physical and sexual abuse in their

Similarly the drug addicts in the eyes of general public are a burden to the society and their tax money. There is a lot of talent which Dr.Mate talks about which he sees in his patients, probably it would be a nice idea if these addicts are helped to explore their talents which might help them and their mind to focus on their talents then on drugs .This might help general public to look at drug addicts to be of some social value and not a complete burden to the society and there tax money.

The book “In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction” is surly very well written with a lot of incite and research along with a lot of experience of Dr. Gabro Mate. To even try to critize this book it needs a lot of experience and knowledge in the field of adduction. This book surly needs to be read by all, including the general public and who intend to work in the fields of addiction or towards social justice. This book can surly help many people to change their mindsets