Leading for Change: Making Change Happen

Lunchtime Lecture Series brought to you by Hollyhock and UBC Continuing Studies. Generously sponsored by Vancity.

Healing the Hungry Ghost: Addiction, Suffering and Possibility in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside with Gabor Mate, M.D

Gabor is a physician, counsellor, seminar leader and bestselling author whose most recent book, In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, has been awarded the Hubert Evans Prize for literary non-fiction. For over ten years Gabor has worked as staff physician at the Portland Hotel, a residence and harm reduction facility in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, and also at Insite, North America's only supervised injection facility. His patients are challenged by life-threatening drug addictions, mental illness, Hepatitis C or HIV and, in many cases, all four. Providing a bold synthesis of clinical experience, insight and cutting edge scientific findings, Gabor will shed light on this most puzzling of human frailties. Moving far beyond traditional treatments, Gabor proposes a compassionate approach to helping drug addicts and to addressing the void addiction is meant to fill. www.drgabormate.com

Registration: $15/$12 for non-profits, seniors & students
To register call UBC Continuing Studies at 604.822.1444 or register online.