Addiction Rooted In Childhood Trauma, Says Prominent Specialist [californiahealthline.org]
Dr. @Gabor Maté, a well-known addiction specialist and author, spent 12 years working in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, a neighborhood with a large concentration of hardcore drug users. The agency where he worked operates residential hotels for people with addictions, a detox center and a pioneering injection facility , where drug users are permitted to shoot up and can get clean needles, medical care and counseling. Born to a Jewish family in Budapest at the time of the...