American psychiatrist — Stanford Medical School — chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic — author of Dopamine Nation — who became one of the most prominent public voices on addiction and the opioid epidemic.
Creates the dopamine homeostasis framework for understanding addiction — Lembke's Dopamine Nation explains addiction (whether to drugs, social media, or food) through the brain's dopamine balance mechanism: pleasure tilts the balance one way, pain tilts it the other, and the brain always seeks to restore equilibrium, causing tolerance and withdrawal.
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