Dr. Anna Lembke, MD, is Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic at Stanford University School of Medicine.
We discuss dopamine, addictive behaviors, warning signs, addiction treatment, and how our brains handle all that pleasure and pain in life.
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Timestamps:
00:00 – Intro
01:20 – Dopamine, explained
02:17 – Dopamine and motivation
10:30 – Addiction, explained
13:46 – Pleasure, pain, and withdrawal
24:08 – Early warning signs of addiction
26:39 – Treatment for addiction
36:29 – Stress and addiction
39:40 – Why is AA so successful?
48:26 – Does the time of day impact relapse?
51:34 – Why Lembke studies addiction
54:26 – The hardest thing for fellows to learn
57:39 – Lembke’s difficulties with sleeping
01:03:05 – What success looks like for Lembke
