Essentials: Understanding & Treating Addiction | Dr. Anna Lembke

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In this Huberman Lab Essentials episode, my guest is Dr. Anna Lembke, MD , Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic at Stanford University School of Medicine. We discuss how dopamine drives reward, motivation and addictive behaviors. Dr. Lembke explains the concept of the pleasure-pain balance of dopamine and how this cycle plays a key role in the development and persistence of addiction . We also discuss some of the challenges of addiction recovery, including withdrawal, r

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