Dr. Maté's latest book is a moving, debate-provoking, and multi-layered look at how addiction arises, the people afflicted with it and why he supports decriminalization of all drugs, including crystal meth.... [ In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts] reads not only as a lively textbook analysis of the physiological and psychological causes of drug addiction, but also as an investigation into his heart and mind. — The Globe and Mail

"In this comprehensive and courageous book ... Maté relates, with compassion and honesty, the poignant stories of severe substance addicts - the hungry ghosts, in Buddhist-realm terminology - whom he treats. And it is the addicts' stories and the clear logic of the latest science and statistics that Maté shares which convince the reader that society's attitudes toward, and treatment of, addiction must change. .... This 480-page tome, exhausting in delineating and substantiating its causes, remains a remarkably lyrical, engaging read." --In Recovery Magazine