Anna Lembke, MD, is a professor in the department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, and Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Clinic.
In 2016, she published Drug Dealer, MD – How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), highlighted in the New York Times as one of the top five books to read to understand the opioid epidemic (Zuger, 2018).
Dr. Lembke recently appeared on the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, an unvarnished look at the impact of social media on our lives.
Her forthcoming book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence (Dutton/Penguin Random House, August 2021) explores how to moderate compulsive overconsumption, including digital products, in a world where feeling good is the highest good.
Anna Lembke
Dopamine Nation (Anna Lembke)
Drug Dealer, MD (Anna Lembke)
www.TheSocialDilemma.com
Anna’s book recommendations:
The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business (David Courtwright)
Amusing Ourselves to Death (Neil Postman)
Going on Being (Mark Epstein, MD)