Anna Lembke Interview Video

Anna Lembke, MD author of Dopamine Nation and Drug Dealer, MD joins us to discuss the dopamine reward system, process addictions and how to manage them. Hosted by Darlene Petersen, MD and Paula Cook, MD.
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[@duskblossom]

Multiple sclerosis, crohns, multiple surgeries. - no pain meds. Is your data from 2010? We are DYING out here

[@ricodamore]

Why are cpp being denied their medicine.

[@ricodamore]

There are fewer and fewer pain medicine scripts everyday. Cpp punished for your ideas about addiction. Addiction is not universal and is not dependence. How about covering that?

[@ricodamore]

Why do you focus on addiction and not pain treatment? Thousands are suffering from the zealotry of addiction doctors

[@visn10vet6]

World War 2 vets didn't have the survival rate in large part because of shock control with opioids

[@ricodamore]

Doctors only feel pressure to not subscribe pain meds for people.

[@tmbarry]

If you want to be an expert on addiction, by all means, preach the gospel of addiction treatment which is badly needed. But please stop vilifying opioids for pain, which are taken safely by tens of millions of people in the US every year and there's no dramatic increase in the number of people with addiction. The number is fairly stable, although changing substances. And thanks to people like you, and groups like PROP up to 5 million patients have been medically abandoned. Stop stigmatizing safe effective FDA-approved opioids.

[@the.illest]

How can you be destigmatizing when you act like anyone needing medication for pain is an addict? When in reality people that are addicts will choose their addiction regardless of what’s available to them to use. And there are people that safely and cautiously use their medication with fabulous short and long term results. This is so biased and acts on the assumption mentally well adults can’t think for or choose for themselves. Yes help addicts. AND recognize there is a huge population that aren’t and can safely treat their pain if only drs like you hadn’t tainted the patient pool assuming all people are addicts in waiting like you.

[@Kenji1962Boss]

Have you ever been addicted Dr Lembke? You consider all patients on opioids as addicts no matter what they say. Even if it works you take it away. How do I live with intractable pain that hadn’t responded to mental therapies, physical therapy, injections, surgeries and forces me the patient to be bedridden. I take only 18mg a day and you want to take even THAT away from me. Loss of agency. More and more addicted. Addicted patients. Please please share your data with US!!

[@Kenji1962Boss]

CRPS. Please. #1 on the pain scale. How do you know how I feel? You are incredibly dangerous.

[@jipsees1908]

No one is 'over prescribing' opiate pain medication...wow so out of touch..

[@zzevonplant]

To people like this - any prescribing is over-prescribing. They're psychopathic, it seems.

[@ricodamore]

This Lembke is dangerous. No mention of cpp and actual need. Just addiction. No talk about the most addictive substance, sugar.

[@visn10vet6]

@4 minutes has been illegal since the cara act, she is full of it