Reviews tagging 'Drug abuse'

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

19 reviews

charlottedow's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

A bit “Protestant work ethic” for my taste but she has some good points.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Sexual content, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Drug abuse

Kink shaming

wanna_read's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Medical content, and Mental illness

Minor: Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, and Self harm

melina333's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

2.5

Das Buch hatte einige Interessante Passagen und handelt davon, wie es gelingen kann eine Sucht zu bekämpfen. Viele Kapitel fand ich leider sehr langweilig, da immer wieder (in meinen Augen uninteressante) Geschichten aus dem Leben der Autorin und dem Leben ihrer Patienten ausgebreitet werden. Anstelle dieser ganzen Beispiele hatte ich mir mehr wissenschaftlichen Inhalt erhofft. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Mental illness, Alcoholism, and Addiction

Moderate: Suicide attempt and Self harm

kirstenw's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

She explains so much about how our brain are affected by various influences in the modern world. It is a little repetitive, but for me that repetition helped drill in the points, especially when listening via audiobook. I got a lot out of the audiobook, but I think I need to get a hardcopy to reread and really soak it in. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Sexual content

mamatoca's review against another edition

informative fast-paced

3.75

Good read in conjunction with The Comfort Crisis. Both secular, pop science takes that support the spiritual practice of detachment,  moderation, and mindfulness. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Sexual content

gonereadingleave's review against another edition

informative reflective fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Drug abuse, and Sexual content

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

kkarinh's review against another edition

fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

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

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

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, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexual content and Suicide