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Dr. Gabor Mate: Healing From Addiction & Trauma

A Life of Greatness

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Addiction Is Not a Choice, It's Not Genetics

There is no gene or group of genes that causes any mental illness or any addiction, he says. There's a condition in his family called muscular dystrophy and if you get the gene, you'll get the disease - but those are very, very, very rare. "No matter how much people prattle on about genetic predispositions," Dr. Obeidallah adds.

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