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117 - Anna Lembke: Dopamine, Drug Addiction, and Recovery

117 - Anna Lembke: Dopamine, Drug Addiction, and Recovery

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Dr. Anna Lembke received her undergraduate degree in Humanities
from Yale University and and her medical degree from Stanford
University. She is currently Professor and Medical Director of
Addiction Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
She is also Program Director of the Stanford Addiction Medicine
Fellowship, and Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual
Diagnosis Clinic. In this episode, Robinson and Anna discuss her
latest, New York Times bestselling book Dopamine Nation: Finding
Balance in the Age of Indulgence (Dutton/Penguin Random House,
August 2021). More particularly, they talk about just what
happens in the brain when someone develops an addiction, what
current social and cultural conditions have led to increased
rates of addiction, and how all of these factors—and addiction
itself—ought to be combatted. Anna is also the author of Drug
Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why
It’s So Hard to Stop (Johns Hopkins, 2016), which sounded the
alarm on—and covers—various dimensions of the opioid crisis.

Dopamine Nation: https://a.co/d/0AJw6Je

Drug Dealer, MD: https://a.co/d/2soL324

OUTLINE

00:00 In This Episode…

00:56 Introduction

04:10 Addiction and Narrative

11:18 The Role of Dopamine in Addiction

20:29 Risk Factors for Addiction

27:31 Anna’s Addiction to Romance Novels

40:39 Pain, Pleasure, and Addiction

59:11 How to Tackle Addictions?

01:15:09 Is The Hype For Medical Psychedelics Overblown?

01:21:51 Honesty, Shame, and Recovery from Addiction

Robinson’s Website: http://robinsonerhardt.com

Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of
mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations
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