Anna Lembke Biography

Dr. Anna Lembke is a psychiatrist and professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, where she serves as Medical Director of Addiction Medicine and Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. A leading expert on the opioid epidemic, she authored the bestselling “Drug Dealer, MD” (2016), which examines how doctors contributed to prescription drug addiction, and “Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence” (2021), a New York Times bestseller exploring how modern overconsumption of high-dopamine stimuli.  

Lembke, a Yale humanities graduate and Stanford M.D., has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and appeared in the 2020 Netflix documentary “The Social Dilemma”, arguing social media acts as a “digital drug.” She has testified before Congress, delivered a TEDx Stanford talk on pain management, and advocates for balanced dopamine regulation to combat compulsive behaviors. 

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