Addiction Author: Anna Lembke Publisher: New Star Press

Why can't you give up some things?

This popular science masterpiece about the scientific research of dopamine and addiction has been sold in more than 20 countries. Yin Ye and Li Songwei highly recommend it!

The book comes with super practical quitting cards and stickers to help you quit your addiction faster.

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★Content Introduction

We live in a world with abundant materials, and various addictive substances that stimulate dopamine secretion are filling our lives. We are increasingly losing ourselves, unable to feel happiness, spiritually empty, and even depressed and painful. Based on this, Dr. Lembke explores the latest findings in addiction science, which explain why even though we pursue happiness relentlessly, we often end up in pain...

Dr. Lembke uses cases of patients who have suffered from addiction to incorporate these vivid stories into the book, and analyzes the brain's reward mechanism from a neuroscience perspective, hoping that we can benefit from the experiences and lessons of these patients. She tells us how to balance happiness and pain, and proposes effective solutions such as self-restraint strategies.

Anna Lembke is a professor of psychiatry and addiction medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and director of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. She has won multiple awards for her outstanding research achievements in mental illness, excellent teaching achievements, and clinical innovation in treatment. As a clinical researcher, she has published more than 100 articles in famous journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Dr. Lembke has spent the past 25 years treating patients addicted to everything from heroin, gambling and sex to video games, Botox and ice baths. Lembke was also one of the first people in the US medical community to sound the alarm about opioid abuse, gave a Ted Talk on the US opioid crisis, and appeared as a talking head in the 2020 Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma. She knows a lot about why we become addicted to certain things and how we can enjoy pleasurable things to a more reasonable degree. Her new book, Dopamine Nation, has attracted widespread attention from all walks of life in the United States as soon as it was published.