Anna Lembke (born November 27, 1967) is an American psychiatrist who is Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic at Stanford University. She is a specialist in the opioid epidemic in the United States, and the author of Drug Dealer, MD, How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop. Her latest book, a New York Times bestseller, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, was released in August 2021.

Lembke appeared in the 2020 Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma.

Early life and education :

Lembke was an undergraduate student at Yale University, graduating with a B.A. in humanities in 1989. She earned her M.D. at Stanford University School of Medicine in 1995 and completed her residency in psychiatry, also at Stanford, in 1998. She interned at the Alameda County Highland Hospital, specializing in adult psychiatry and addiction. She was board certified in 2003.