Anna Lembke
Anna Lembke is an American psychiatrist who is Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic at Stanford University. She is a specialist in the opioid epidemic in the United States, and the author of Drug Dealer, MD, How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop. Her latest book, a New York Times bestseller, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, was released in August 2021.
Lembke appeared in the 2020 Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma.
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
Anna Lembke is an American psychiatrist, Program Director of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Fellowship, and Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. In her recent bestselling book Dopamine Nation, Lembke compiles decades of research and expertise on addiction. She also tells personal anecdotes of patients from her clinical practice. As she sees it, their addiction experiences are not as distant from our lives as we might think. Instead, their stories are like those of a prophet, teaching us who we truly are. Living in a culture primarily motivated by high-dopamine rewards, it has become crucial that we all learn how to balance pleasure and pain.
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