Embraced By The Needle Analysis

The essay “Embraced by the Needle” by Gabor Mate is about people with addiction caused by not only taking the drug but also the feeling of abandonment or neglect. Gabor Mate is a doctor who was working as a staff physician at the Portland Hotel and taking care of patients who suffer from drug addiction and mental illness. Mate has also his personal experiences about people who have issues with drug abuse. Mate estimated from his experience with his clients and studies that there are 3,000 to 5,000 people with addictions in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (Mate, 2016). Then, Mate gives some statistics and the experiences of the patients with addition to show his arguments about the reasons behind addiction.

Mate discussed how addiction can destroy someone’s life. He thought that a drug by itself does not cause addiction. He meant that there is a hidden reason that makes them use drugs in the first place, and it is not the drugs that cause the …show more content…
In this essay I could know that some of the people who experienced the abuse during childhood are suffering from addiction in the world, also Canada. It is very sad fact. However, I have not experienced abuse from my parents and any adults, and I have never thought that I wanted or needed to take the drug. Therefore, I can’t understand their feeling, but I hope they will overcome from addict and get their great life.
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I was interested about the study to explain how abandonment of child hood affects the brain. I am surprised about the using rats and monkeys in order to study the research. I agree with using monkeys for the study because a structure of a body and the brain of the monkey are similar to human 's. However, rat is not similar to human. I think rat is too small for comparing to human.
I have no idea why rat is used to explain to neglect as a child affects the human’s brain. It was interesting for me, and I wondered about it.