Anna Lembke

About the author

Anna Lembke, born in 1967, is an American psychiatrist and specialist in addiction medicine who leads the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic at Stanford University. A prominent voice on the opioid epidemic in the United States, she authored Drug Dealer, MD, How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It's So Hard to Stop, and her 2021 follow-up Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence became a New York Times bestseller. She appeared in the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma and her work has been covered by The New York Times and NPR.