Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER “Brilliant . . . riveting scary cogent and cleverly argued.”—Beth Macy author of Dopesick as heard on Fresh Air This book is about pleasure. It’s also about pain. Most important it’s about how to find the delicate balance between the two and why now more than ever finding balance is essential. We’re living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward high-dopamine stimuli: drugs food news gambling shopping gaming texting sexting Facebooking Instagramming YouTubing tweeting . . . The increased numbers variety and potency is staggering. The smartphone is the modern-day hypodermic needle delivering digital dopamine 24/7 for a wired generation. As such we’ve all become vulnerable to compulsive overconsumption. In Dopamine Nation Dr. Anna Lembke psychiatrist and author explores the excit