Reviews tagging 'Drug use'

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

17 reviews

sunnyellis's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

3.0

It was not as practically  helpful as I would have like.  I think this book would be most useful for a counselor working with addiction.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Sexual content

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Alcoholism

karenmariscalo's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

3.75

Very insightful, however it lost me at times.

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Content Warnings

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

fireside_reads's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug use, and Sexual content

Minor: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Medical content

kkarinh's review against another edition

fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, and Alcohol

Minor: Body shaming, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Car accident, and Dysphoria

the_wandering_wisp's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use and Sexual content

nisk's review against another edition

informative inspiring fast-paced

3.0

I like the stories told by the author about her patients. Unfortunately, I was looking forward to activities that I can take and try from the book. Very little information on solutions that I can try except for what the others (patient) already did. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction

Moderate: Addiction and Alcohol

Minor: Drug use

srosen930's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.75

This book did a good job backing up its main points with real life examples, which always helps me solidify a point.  

I was a little concerned that when the book got to the part of pressing on the "pain" side of the "pleasure - pain scale" that the author didnt condemn harmful self harm techniques.  Like cold showering is a good example of pressing on the pain side, but when talking about cutting, I would put a disclaimer there.  

The book ran a little long for me, but it wasn't too long or wordy.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual content and Suicide