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Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

by Anna Lembke

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First published: 2021
Pages: 229

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Dr Anna Lembke’s Dopamine Nation is a profoundly engaging meditation on addiction and how the human brain's reward system has come up against today’s excess. Combining neuroscience with real life stories, Lembke shows how overindulgence affects mental health and gives practical strategies to restore balance. This is an insightful book for a clear understanding of pleasure, pain and the search for the good life.

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Anna Lembke

Anna Lembke is an American psychiatrist practicing in the field of addiction medicine 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.

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