By Elizabeth Hartney — 2020
Long-term recovery is not a final destination, but an ongoing process of facing and coping with life without retreating into addictive behaviors.
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Psychiatrist and Stanford professor Dr. Anna Lembke joins Rich to discuss the neuroscience of modern addiction, dopamine fasting, the opioid crisis and more.
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In this episode I interview Dr. Anna Lembke, MD, Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Lembke is a psychiatrist expert in treating addictions of all kinds: drugs, alcohol, food, sex, video games, gambling, food, medication, etc.
Not long ago, Stanford psychiatrist Anna Lembke would refuse to treat anyone who used opioids, believing that there wasn’t much she could do until they stopped abusing the addictive painkiller. Since researching and writing her new book, “Drug Dealer, M.D.
Author of Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, psychiatrist Dr. Anna Lembke joins me this week to talk about pleasure, pain, dopamine and the brain!
The disturbing connection between well-meaning physicians and the prescription drug epidemic. Three out of four people addicted to heroin probably started on a prescription opioid, according to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This book is about pleasure. It’s also about pain. Most important, it’s about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance is essential.