Anna Lembke: podcast appearances and interviews

Anna Lembke is an American psychiatrist specializing in addiction medicine. She serves as the chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic at Stanford University School of Medicine. Her expertise includes the opioid epidemic in the United States. She is the author of the book Drug Dealer, MD, which explores how doctors were duped, how patients became addicted, and the challenges in stopping such behaviors. Her 2021 book Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence became a New York Times bestseller. Lembke has appeared in the 2020 Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma and has been featured in major media outlets including The New York Times and NPR, where her work has contributed to the ongoing discussion of addiction and compulsive behaviors.