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I live in Gabor Maté's hometown of Vancouver, where he has been a pioneer in transforming how the medical profession and government deals with the addiction epidemic affecting the city. Looking out my office window right now, I can see the clinic which is pioneering opioid replacement therapy, in which addicts who have failed all other avenues of addictions treatment are injected regularly with hydromorphone and diacetylmorphine. Without Maté's courageous work in this community, the research underpinning this therapy would potentially not have occurred.

"Hydromorphone Compared With Diacetylmorphine for Long-term Opioid Dependence: A Randomized Clinical Trial." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27049826