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| Named Person: | Gabor Maté; Gabor Maté |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Gabor Maté |
| ISBN: | 9780676977417 0676977413 |
| OCLC Number: | 1084419835 |
| Notes: | Vintage Canada edition. Originally published: Toronto : Knopf Canada, 2008. New introduction by the author. |
| Description: | xxix, 465 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents: | The only home he's ever had -- The lethal hold of drugs -- The keys of paradise -- You wouldn't believe my life story -- Angela's grandfather -- Pregnancy journal -- Beethoven's birth room -- There's got to be some light -- Takes one to know one -- Twelve-step journal -- What is addiction? -- From Vietnam to "Rat Park" -- A different state of the brain -- Through a needle, a warm soft hug -- Cocaine, dopamine and candy bars -- Like a child not released -- Their brains never had a chance -- Trauma, stress and the biology of addiction -- It's not in the genes -- "A void I'll do anything to avoid" -- Too much time on external things -- Poor substitutes for love -- Dislocation and the social roots of addiction -- Know thine enemy -- A failed war -- Freedom of choice and the choice of freedom -- Imagining an enlightened social policy on drugs -- A necessary small step: harm reduction -- The power of compassionate curiosity -- The internal climate -- The four steps, plus one -- Sobriety and the external Milieu -- A word to families, friends and caregivers -- There is nothing lost. |
| Responsibility: | Gabor Maté. |
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