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Dr. Gabor Maté on Donald Trump, Traumaphobia, and Compassion: An Interview
By John Lavitt — 2017
What if we replaced the word "addict" with: “A human being who suffered so much that he or she finds in drugs or some other behavior a temporary escape from that suffering"?
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