Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Anna Lembke

51 reviews

lindsayvale's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Graphic: Addiction

Minor: Sexual content

mel_rauen's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Sexual content

leeang's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

A deeply human book. I enjoyed the accounts from her patients and the way she wove their stories together to illuminate lessons from her field. Overall very much enjoyed! 

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Graphic: Addiction

kayelcr's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Moderate: Addiction

devynreadsnovels's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

playing2001's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

Very good, a great book that uses stories as examples, so it moves at a faster pace than you would expect given the content.  

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Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Sexual content

isabellazuniga's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

3.25

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Graphic: Addiction and Sexual content

eliasaurus's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.0

First and foremost, this isn't a self help book. It presents information in a simplistic and accessible way, so it's definitely pop sci.

The book's first section is its strongest, with a good overview of what dopamine does and its role in addiction. However, the section about pain went on longer than it needed to, and the section about shame seemed completely out of place. This section is probably responsible for the reviews stating that Lembke is overly favorable towards AA and the 12 steps. I don't think she's recommending AA as much as stating that it worked for many of her patients. Still, this part of the book is the shakiest and could have been omitted entirely.

On the whole, the book is very readable and I learned some new info. I also enjoyed the patient stories (and the author's note about obtaining consent for their use). But it's not amazing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Alcohol

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

slipppers98's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

2.5

Warning: Animal cruelty detailed!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, and Sexual content

Moderate: Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

mjadeh's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol