Name: Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the age of Indulgence
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Author: Anna Lembke
ISBN: 9781524746728

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Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the age of Indulgence

Type

Physical Book

Author

Anna Lembke

Publisher

Dutton

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

304

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.2 x 15.0 x 3.4 cm

Weight

0.48 kg.

ISBN13

9781524746728

Synopsis "Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the age of Indulgence "

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER"Brilliant . . . riveting, scary, cogent, and cleverly argued."--Beth Macy, author of Dopesick, as heard on Fresh Air 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. 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 is staggering. The smartphone is the modern-day hypodermic needle, delivering digital dopamine 24/7 for a wired generation. As such we've all become vulnerable to compulsive overconsumption. In Dopamine Nation, Dr. Anna Lembke, psychiatrist and author, explores the exciting new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure leads to pain . . . and what to do about it. Condensing complex neuroscience into easy-to-understand metaphors, Lembke illustrates how finding contentment and connectedness means keeping dopamine in check. The lived experiences of her patients are the gripping fabric of her narrative. Their riveting stories of suffering and redemption give us all hope for managing our consumption and transforming our lives. In essence, Dopamine Nation shows that the secret to finding balance is combining the science of desire with the wisdom of recovery.

Anna Lembke

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Professor of Psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine and head of the Dual Diagnosis Clinic at Stanford Addiction Medicine. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Humanities at Yale University and her medical degree at Stanford University. As a clinical scholar, she has published over a hundred peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and commentaries in prestigious journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA. Among her most notable works are "Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It's So Hard to Stop" (2016), where she analyzes the role of doctors in the opioid crisis in the United States, and "Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence" (2021), which explores how the constant pursuit of pleasure can lead to pain and addiction. These publications, framed within the genre of medicine and public health, have solidified her reputation as an expert in the study and treatment of addictions.

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