Anna Lembke | |
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Born | November 27, 1967 |
Education | Yale University (BA) Stanford University (MD) |
Known for | Addiction medicine |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Psychiatry |
Institutions | Stanford University |
Website | https://www.annalembke.com |
Anna Lembke (born November 27, 1967) is an American psychiatrist who is Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic at Stanford University. She is a specialist in the opioid epidemic in the United States, and the author of Drug Dealer, MD, How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop.[1] Her latest book, a New York Times bestseller, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, was released in August 2021.[2]
Lembke appeared in the 2020 Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma.[3]