Welcome to the Uberman Lab podcast where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life.

I'm Andrew Uberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine.

Today I have the pleasure of introducing Dr. Anna Lemke.

Dr. Lemke is a psychiatrist and the chief of the Addiction Medicine dual diagnosis clinic at Stanford University School of Medicine.

She's a psychiatrist who treats patients struggling with addiction.

She has successfully treated patients dealing with drug addiction, alcohol addiction, and behavioral addictions, such as gambling and sex addiction, as well as other types of addiction.

In fact, during our discussion I learned that there are a huge range of behaviors and substances to which people can become addicted to, and that there is a common biological underpinning of all those addictions.

I also learned that there is a common path to the treatment and recovery from essentially all addictions.

Dr. Lemke explained that to me and explained how to think about and conceptualize our own addictions, as well as the addictions of other people who are struggling to get treatment, move through treatment, and stay sober from their addictions.

In addition to treating patients, Dr. Lemke is an author and was featured in the 2020 Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma.

I'm excited to tell you that she has a new book coming out called Dopamine Nation, Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence.

The book comes out August 24th and is an absolutely fascinating read into addiction and ways to treat various types of addiction.

I've read the book, Cover to Cover, and all I'll tell you is that at the very first chapter and throughout, you are going to be absolutely blown away.

The stories about her patients are extremely engaging. It brings forward the real struggle of addiction and the incredible, I think it's fair to say, heroic battles that people fight in order to get through addictions of various kinds.

All of that is woven through with story, with science, and ways that make it very accessible to anyone, whether or not you have a science background or not.

I can't recommend it highly enough. So again, the book is Dopamine Nation, Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence. It comes out August 24th of this year, 2021.

And you can pre-order that book by going to Amazon. We will provide a link to that in the show caption.

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