Leigh Martinuzzi

Dopamine Nation In today's episode, I speak with Dr. Anna Lembke, psychiatrist and author of Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence. We’re living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, sexting, Facebooking, Instagramming, YouTubing, tweeting… The increased numbers, variety, and potency are staggering. we’ve all become vulnerable to compulsive overconsumption. Anna helps explain how Dopamine works and the exciting new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain. Most important, Anna helps us understand how we can find the delicate balance between the two. Books by Anna Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop Guest Bio. Anna Lembke is a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual