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Drug Dealer, MD How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It's So Hard to Stop

Anna Lembke

Three out of four people addicted to heroin probably started on a prescription opioid, according to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the United States alone, 16,000 people die each year as a result of prescription opioid overdose. But perhaps the most frightening as...

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Anna Lembke, a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, is the author of this book, which focuses on the science of addiction, especially the role of dopamine.

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Chief of Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic at Stanford University, author of Drug Dealer MD, and also Dopamine Nation. May I introduce Anna Lemke.

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Anna Lembke, a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, is the author of this book, which focuses on the science of addiction, especially the role of dopamine.

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Chief of Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic at Stanford University, author of Drug Dealer MD, and also Dopamine Nation. May I introduce Anna Lemke.

The first is Johns Hopkins University Press and the Dopamine Nation is published by Dutton Penguin Random House.

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