Are we a culture of addicts living in a world of overwhelming overabundance? That is the premise of the brilliant Stanford psychiatrist Dr Anna Lembke, and her must-read book Dopamine Nation. She believes addiction will be the crux of human suffering not just for the next decade but for centuries to come, but at the same time is offering a practical and pragmatic solution that taps into our inherent humanity while protecting against the intentional hacking of our evolutionary vulnerabilities.

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Anna Lembke is professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. A clinician scholar, she has published more than a hundred peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and commentaries. She sits on the board of several state and national addiction-focused organizations, has testified before various committees in the United States House of Representatives and Senate, keeps an active speaking calendar, and maintains a thriving clinical practice.

In 2016, she published “Drug Dealer, MD – How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop”, recently appeared on the Netflix documentary “The Social Dilemma”, and is the author of “Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence”, an instant New York Times Bestseller, explores how to moderate compulsive overconsumption in a dopamine-overloaded world.

Join us as we explore:

The bounty of dopamine, the drugification of the modern world and why it has left every single one of us vulnerable to addictions of all sorts and how that is inexorably intertwined with the mental health distress epidemic.

What is addiction, the 4Cs, what separates it from a passion or habit, and why the boundaries between these categories have blurred.

Paying for your dopamine up-front and how that allows you to avoid the dopamine deficit trap.

The problem with the “work hard, play hard” mentality.

Dopamine fasting, the dopamine see-saw, pleasure-pain gremlins and how this forms the foundation of anxiety treatment.

How to prepare psychologically and create the optimal environment for successful dopamine fasting.

The link between addiction, “drug” use and cognitive decline.

Why parents, schools, communities and companies need to come together and save our children from the hooks of social media.

Contact:

Website: https://www.annalembke.c

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