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In Kamloops talk, bestselling author Gabor Maté explains why he believes addiction isn’t a choice — but ‘comes out of trauma’

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Gabor Maté speaks in Kamloops at Thompson Rivers University as part of the Common Voices lecture series on Feb. 11. Photo by Macarena Mantilla / The Wren Last month, more than 600 people packed the Campus Activity Centre to hear a wide-ranging talk about mental health and addiction by Dr. Gabor Maté at Thompson Rivers University (TRU) in Kamloops. Maté is a physician and author of several books informed by his decades working in Vancouver’s Down…
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thewrennews.ca broke the news in on Tuesday, March 24, 2026.
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