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AI Summary
- Anna Lembke, Stanford psychiatrist, discusses the opioid crisis severity, shifting language around addiction, and her personal struggle with romance novel addiction
- She explores how addiction causes isolation, how social media and drugs stimulate identical brain regions, and how nature, nurture, and environment influence addiction likelihood
- Lembke explains how addicts rationalize their behavior, specific mood-affecting chemicals, and the need to reframe our understanding of pain
Guests on This Episode
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Anna Lembke
11 podcast appearances