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Anna Lembke
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Anna Lembke is an American psychiatrist specializing in addiction medicine who leads Stanford’s Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic and wrote Dopamine Nation.
Biography
Anna Lembke is an American psychiatrist who practices addiction medicine and serves as chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic at Stanford University. Her expertise includes the opioid epidemic in the United States. She is the author of Drug Dealer, MD, How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop.
Her book Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence was published in August 2021 and became a New York Times bestseller. Lembke appeared in the 2020 Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma. Her work has also been discussed by The New York Times and NPR in coverage of addiction and compulsive behavior.
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Books by Anna Lembke
Dopamine Nation
Dopamine Nation examines how ready access to high-reward stimuli and the relentless pursuit of pleasure can lead to pain. It combines scientific explanations of desire with perspectives from recovery to explore balance, contentment, and connectedness.