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Dec 2021
1h 26m

Pain, Pleasure, and the Addictive Chase ...

DR. MICHAEL GERVAIS
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Dr. Anna Lembke, a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic, discusses the science of addiction, the pleasure-pain balance, and the problematic societal craving for dopamine. 
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