“Addiction is a human problem that resides in people, not in the drug or in the drug’s capacity to produce physical effects,”… — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
“Many people fear that decriminalization and the controlled dispensing of drugs will lead to widespread substance use among people who are now… — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
“The successes (financial) represent addictive drives, whose negative impact in the world is tremendous. Who creates more suffering, somebody who sells an… — Gabor Maté Money Copy Share Image
“External motivators for behavior such as rewards and punishments may destroy the precious internal motivation to be good, making leverage by such… — Gabor Maté Habits Copy Share Image
“Addictions, even as they resemble normal human yearnings, are more about desire than attainment. In the addicted mode, the emotional charge is… — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
“As we mature, our brain develops the ability to mix things together, to hold different perceptions, senses, thoughts, feelings, and impulses all… — Gabor Maté Growth Copy Share Image
“The hardcore drug addicts that I treat, are, without exception, people who have had extraordinarily difficult lives. The commonality is childhood abuse.… — Gabor Maté Abuse Copy Share Image
“In the cloudy swirl of misleading ideas surrounding public discussion of addiction, there’s one that stands out: the misconception that drug taking… — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
“The culture generated by peer-orientation is sterile in the strict sense of that word: it is unable to reproduce itself or to… — Gabor Maté Culture Copy Share Image
“I needed to write, to express myself through written language not only so that others might hear me but so that I… — Gabor Maté Language Copy Share Image
“Disease is not simply a manifestation of some physical process unique to the individual, but it reflects their particular lives, environment and… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Selye discovered that the biology of stress predominantly affected three types of tissues or organs in the body: in the hormonal system,… — Gabor Maté Change Copy Share Image
“Some parents resist the idea of ADD for fear of seeing their children labeled and categorized. They do not like the idea… — Gabor Maté Children Copy Share Image
“Misplaced attachment to what cannot satiate the soul is not an error exclusive to addicts, but the common condition of mankind. It… — Gabor Maté Great teachers Copy Share Image
“There is yet another reason why peer-oriented kids are insatiable. In order to reach the turning point, a child must not only… — Gabor Maté Children Copy Share Image
“What, then, is addiction? In the words of a consensus statement by addiction experts in 2001, addiction is a “chronic neurobiological disease…… — Gabor Maté Addiction Copy Share Image
“The nuclear family is said to be the basic unit of society but is itself under extreme pressure. Divorce rates have soared.… — Gabor Maté Children Copy Share Image
“There's a psychologist called Mary & Diamond who at Brooklyn in California, in the 80s studied rats. And they took rats at… — Gabor Maté Brain damage Copy Share Image
“I can do this with half my brain tied behind my back,” I used to joke. No joke, that. It’s precisely how… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
