The Forum with Anna Lembke: Dopamine Nation

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We live in a world of unprecedented access to pleasure—and unprecedented opportunity for overconsumption. From our smartphones and social media to food, shopping, gaming, and entertainment, high-reward stimuli are available to us virtually around the clock. But as psychiatrist and author Dr. Anna Lembke argues in Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, the relentless pursuit of pleasure can ultimately lead to pain. Join Dean Malcolm Clemens Young for a conversation with Dr. Lembke about the neuroscience of desire, the surprising relationship between pleasure and pain, and how we might reclaim balance, connection, and meaning in a culture of endless distraction and indulgence. Buy Dopamine Nation. Books will also be available for a donation at The Forum. Watch 30 Day Dopamine Fast with Dr. Anna Lembke | MasterClass Registration is recommended but not required. The Forum will be posted on our YouTube and Apple Podcast channels. Give To Grace You can help us bring the arts to life at Grace with a gift today to The Forum. Click here to give. About the Guest Anna Lembke, MD is professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. A clinician scholar, she is the author of more than a hundred peer-reviewed publications, has testified before the United States House of Representatives and Senate, has served as an expert witness in federal and state opioid and social media litigation. She is an internationally recognized leader in addiction medicine treatment and education. 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 appeared in the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, an unvarnished look at the impact of social media on our…

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