![]() ![]() In 2010, Maté became interested in the traditional Amazonian plant medicine ayahuasca and its potential for treating addictions. ![]() Maté made national headlines in defence of the physicians working at Insite (a legal supervised safe injection site) after the federal Minister of Health, Tony Clement, attacked them as unethical. Most recently, he has written about his experiences working with persons with substance use disorders in In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. He worked in harm reduction clinics in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Many of his patients had co-occurring mental health and substance use concerns, in addition to chronic health concerns, such as HIV. For 12 years, he was the staff physician at Portland Hotel, a residence and resource centre located in downtown Vancouver. ![]() He was the medical coordinator of the Palliative Care Unit at Vancouver Hospital for seven years. Maté ran a private family practice in East Vancouver for over 20 years. Īfter working as a high school English and literature teacher for several years, he returned to the University of British Columbia to obtain his M.D. In 1969, Maté married artist and fellow UBC graduate Rae Maté together they have three children including Aaron Maté. from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He was a radical student during the Vietnam War era in the late 1960s and graduated with a B.A. He emigrated to Canada with his family in 1956. His aunt disappeared during the war, and his father endured forced labour at the hands of the Nazi Party. His maternal grandparents were killed in Auschwitz when he was five months old. Maté was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1944. ![]()
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