Brainstorm Speaker Series: Anna Lembke: Dopamine Nation
Schedule
Sat, 25 Jan, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Center for the Arts | Jackson, WY
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Free tickets to see Anna Lembke’s presentation will be available through The Center Box Office at JHCenterForTheArts.org on DEC 13.Anna Lembke, MD is professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. A clinician scholar, she is the author of more than a hundred peer-reviewed publications, has testified before the United States House of Representatives and Senate, has served as an expert witness in federal and state opioid litigation, and is an internationally recognized leader in addiction medicine treatment and education.
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), 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 in the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, an unvarnished look at the impact of social media on our lives.
Her latest book, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence (Dutton/Penguin Random House, August 2021) was an instant New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller and has been translated into 35 languages. It combines the neuroscience of addiction with the wisdom of recovery to explore the problem of compulsive overconsumption in a dopamine-overloaded world.
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Where is it happening?
Center for the Arts, 221 S Cache St, Jackson, WY 83001-8690, United States,Jackson, WyomingEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
