Embraced By The Needle Analysis

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In “Embraced by the Needle”by Gabor Mate , the author says that addiction is not by taking the drug by itself, but also from the feeling of abandonment or neglect. Mate uses his personal experiences with people he has met who have issues with drug abuse, while he was working as a staff physician at the Portland Hotel, Downtown Eastside in Vancouver. Mate estimates addict population in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is around 3,000 to 5,000 people. Mate gives some statistics and some of his patient addiction experiences to validate his arguments about the hidden reasons behind addiction. In this essay Mate discusses how addiction starts and how it can destroy and take over someones life. In Gabor opinion the drugs by itself does not cause

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