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Anna Lembke

Stanford University School of Medicine

Anna Lembke is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. Her work centers on addiction medicine, psychiatry, and dopamine-related behaviors, and she is the author of 'Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence'. Her published research focuses on substance use disorders, examining treatments for opioid and alcohol dependence, associated cardiovascular risks, and the use of machine learning and social media data to monitor addiction trends.

40 claims checked on air: 3 context 1 contradicted 2 overstated 29 supported 5 unverified 3 flagged

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0:00:27unverifiedvery lowDopamine Expert: Doing This Once A Day Fixes Your Dopamine!

The genetic risk of developing an addiction is approximately 50% to 60%.

"the genetic risk of addiction is about 50 to 60%. So if you have a biological parent or grandparent with addiction, you are more likely to develop that addiction." (said at 0:00:27)

No published record matching the claim that the genetic risk of developing an addiction is approximately 50% to 60% was located; this does not prove the claim false.

0:44:25unverifiedvery lowDopamine Expert: Doing This Once A Day Fixes Your Dopamine!

Acute withdrawal from an addictive substance or behavior typically lasts 10 to 14 days.

"and that lasted a good 10 to 14 days, completely mapping on with the amount of time it takes typically to get out of acute withdrawal." (said at 0:44:25)

No published record matching the claim that acute withdrawal from an addictive substance or behavior typically lasts 10 to 14 days was located; this does not prove the claim false.

0:53:46unverifiedvery lowDopamine Expert: Doing This Once A Day Fixes Your Dopamine!

Doctors and lawyers experience rates of alcoholism equal to those in blue-collar occupations.

"You know, maybe that's partially true, but even people doing, like doctors and lawyers, they are— HOST: Oh, okay. Yeah. GUEST1: Equal rates of alcoholism among those groups." (said at 0:53:46)

No published record matching the claim that doctors and lawyers experience rates of alcoholism equal to those in blue-collar occupations was located; this does not prove the claim false.

1:07:14unverifiedvery lowDopamine Expert: Doing This Once A Day Fixes Your Dopamine!

The organ damaged the most by cannabis is the brain.

"The target organ that it damages the most is the brain." (said at 1:07:14)

No published record matching the claim that the brain is the organ damaged the most by cannabis was located; this does not prove the claim false.

1:59:20unverifiedvery lowDopamine Expert: Doing This Once A Day Fixes Your Dopamine!

Rats sensitized to daily cocaine for seven days retain behavioral sensitization (locomotor frenzy) when challenged with a single dose after a full year of abstinence.

"It's an experiment in rats where rats were injected with cocaine, the same amount of cocaine every day for seven days. And over the course of those seven days, the rats went from kind of hiding in the shadows of the cage to progressively running a little bit more and a little bit more, and by day seven, they were in a running frenzy... Then there was no more cocaine injected after seven days, and no cocaine or any addictive substance administered to the rats for a year... And then the rats were injected with a single dose of cocaine, and immediately they were plunged back into that running frenzy that you saw on day seven." (said at 1:59:20)

No published record matching the claim that rats sensitized to daily cocaine for seven days retain behavioral sensitization (locomotor frenzy) when challenged after a full year of abstinence was located; this does not prove the claim false.

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