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The Price We Pay For Pleasure feat. Anna Lembke
Anna Lembke says we are becoming a nation of addicts. She makes that pretty clear in her books with titles like Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance In The Age Of Indulgence and Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, And Why It's So Hard To Stop.Her argument is in a world where we’re constantly chasing pleasure, it's not just that we're using up our dopamine and then we go back to baseline. It's that there's a price to pay for every pleasure. Anna Lembke is a Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine, and joins Greg today to talk about what being an…
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