Learning the Truth About Your Drinking With Dr. Anna Lembke, Author of Dopamine Nation (E76)
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Gill welcomes Dr. Anna Lembke to the podcast. Dr. Lembke is a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. Her new book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence (Dutton/Penguin Random House, August 2021), an instant New York Times bestseller, explores how to moderate compulsive overconsumption in a dopamine-overloaded world.
In this episode, you'll learn:
How whatever perceived positives alcohol is bringing to your life (like less anxiety) with repeated use, alcohol causes or worsens the very thing you are trying to improve
Why alcohol isn't actually your best friend or the only thing that is helping you
Why a 7-14 day break isn't long enough to see the truth about your drinking
How taking 30 days off can significantly improve your mental health for the majority of people
Why doctors are hesitant to ask about alcohol and drug use
Ways to evaluate the amount of alcohol you're consuming
How long does it take to restore balance in the brain
How to set expectations in sobriety
Sobriety obsession: can we get addicted to sobriety?
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), which was 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 on the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, an unvarnished look at the impact of social media on our lives.
Get your copy of Dopamine Nation here
What to listen to next:
E62: Dopamine and Addiction
Cite this episode
Lembke, A., Tietz, G. Episode 76: Learning the Truth About Your Drinking With Dr. Anna Lembke, Author of Dopamine Nation. Sober Powered. 2021.
