Anna Lembke's 2021 book — explaining addiction through the brain's dopamine balance mechanism and arguing that modern life's overabundance of pleasure-inducing stimuli has triggered a mass addiction epidemic — a clinical psychiatrist's account that became a popular bestseller.
Creates the pleasure-pain balance framework for everyday addiction — Dopamine Nation makes the dopamine see-saw model accessible and shows that addiction is not limited to drugs but applies to any behavior that provides supra-normal dopamine stimulation, including smartphones, sugar, and social media.
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