Dopamine Nation with Anna Lembke MD

Best-selling author, Dr. Anna Lembke, returns to discuss her latest book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence. Dr. Lembke carefully maps out the neuroscience, and leads us to an inescapable and uncomfortable conclusion: we have met the enemy, and the enemy is us. Dopamine is merely the messenger.

About Our Guest

Dr. Anna Lembke, MD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She is the Program Director for the Stanford Addiction Medicine Fellowship, and the Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. She is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and a diplomate of the American Board of Addiction Medicine.

She has published over fifty peer-reviewed articles and commentaries in peer reviewed journals. She is the author of Drug Dealer MD: How Doctors were Duped, How Patients got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop and her latest book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence.