Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
No CoverNeuroscience exploration of dopamine-driven addiction and overindulgence, with strategies for restoring balance between pleasure and pain.
Neuroscience exploration of dopamine-driven addiction and overindulgence, with strategies for restoring balance between pleasure and pain.
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER “Brilliant . . . riveting, scary, cogent, and cleverly argued.”—Beth Macy, author of Dopesick This book is about pleasure. It’s also about pain. Most important, it’s about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance is essential. We’re living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, sexting, Facebooking, I...
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Explicit patient cases on porn addiction; detailed sex-device description opens book
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Central addiction case studies: drugs, alcohol, weed, prescriptions; cautionary
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Recurring social critique of consumerism, digital culture, and overindulgence
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Brief animal-cruelty reference; patient suffering tied to addiction narratives
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