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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts Close Encounters with Addiction

Gabor Mate Md

A “thought-provoking and powerful” study that reframes everything you’ve been taught about addiction and recovery—from the

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The Bobby Bones Show

It was described as a long, heavy read about addiction, and the speaker said it changed their perspective on life after reading it. The speaker did not read it for enjoyment but because they dealt with addiction in their family and a therapist recommended it.

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This was a long book, but I and my family deals with a lot of addiction, had a lot of death from addiction, trying to understand addiction. And I read this book by Gabor Matei and it's called In the R...

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It was described as a long, heavy read about addiction, and the speaker said it changed their perspective on life after reading it. The speaker did not read it for enjoyment but because they dealt with addiction in their family and a therapist recommended it.

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This was a long book, but I and my family deals with a lot of addiction, had a lot of death from addiction, trying to understand addiction. And I read this book by Gabor Matei and it's called In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts.

And what he did, he worked at a free clinic in Canada that was a doctor just working with addicts. And one of those where you just like feel differently about life a little bit after you read it.

I didn't read it for fun. It wasn't like I can't wait to read about more addiction. But that was probably the best thing I've read in the last few years called In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. A therapist actually recommended it to me.

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