Problem: Using Gabor Mate's book, "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction"
According to Gabor Mate:
Q1. What are the causes of addiction?
Q2. What is the nature of the addiction-prone personality?
Q3. What happens physiologically in the brains of addicted people?
Q4. How much choice does the addict really have?
Q5. Why is the "War on Drugs" a failure and what might be humane, evidence-based approach to the treatment of severe drug addiction?
Q6. What are some of the path for redeeming addicted minds not dependent on powerful substances - that is, how do we approach the healing of the many behaviour addiction fostered by our culture?