People far-flung have told me that it saved their lives, it changed their view of addiction or it made a big difference to their families... the book addresses — the origins of addiction and a sane and humane way of treating addiction of all kinds — has not become mainstream practice or awareness yet... When the book came out, we still had a federal government that was completely against supervised injection sites, for example, or the provision under observed circumstances of prescribed heroin to dependence users who needed it. We had a completely retrograde federal policy which has opened up quite a bit under the current administration.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "People far-flung have told me that it saved their lives, it changed their view of addiction or it made a big difference to their families... the book addresses — the origins of addiction and a sane and humane way of treating addiction of all kinds — has not become mainstream practice or awareness yet... When the book came out, we still had a federal government that was completely against supervised injection sites, for example, or the provision under observed circumstances of prescribed heroin to dependence users who needed it. We had a completely retrograde federal policy which has opened up quite a bit under the current administration." in the context of "Quoted in Dr. Gabor Maté reflects on the opioid crisis 10 years after In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, CBC Radio (August 31, 2018)
• The above text is an excerpt from his reply to this question: "Why was it important for you to re-release the book with an update on the opioid crisis?"" to mean that wisdom is timeless.