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Dr. Gabor Mate
A good introduction to Dr. Gabor Mate's insights into addiction. Mate (mah-TAY) shows that addiction is caused not by chemical substances themselves but by the complex interaction of brain, experience, the environment (including society and the economy), and chemical substances. Our stressful, exploitative economic system is a major factor causing addiction.
And since The System's "War on Drugs" does little good and much harm, could its real goals be more sinister than its professed goals?
This program replays parts of an interview with Mate (January 2010) by Mike McCormick, on Mind Over Matters, and parts of a speech Mate gave in Berkeley in November 2011 (courtesy of the National Radio Project and Making Contact). The links connect to these original sources, for which many thanks.
Previously broadcast, as NWN #211, in March 2012. Files downloaded from the links, above, are identified as #211.
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