Anna Lembke
Anna Lembke (Dopamine Nation) is a psychiatrist and professor at Stanford University. Anna joins the Armchair Expert to discuss why the opioid crisis has been so dangerous, how language is shifting when talking about people with addictions, and how being addicted to romance novels affected her personal life. Anna and Dax talk about how addiction drives people into isolation, how social media and drugs stimulate the same parts of the brain, and how nature, nurture, or neighborhood can affect peoples’ likelihood of forming an addiction. Anna explains how people rationalize their addictions in their own minds, what specific chemicals affect our moods, and how we need to explore reframing our concept of pain.
Anna Lembke: @drugdealermd
Armchair Expert: @armchairexppod
Dax Shepard: @daxshepard
Hosted by: Dax Shepard
Edited by: Monica Padman, Emma Lawrence, & Laura Moses
Mixed & Mastered by: Billy Klein