Dr Anna Lembke is a psychiatrist, medical director of Stanford (University) Addiction Medicine and author of Dopamine Nation, and is concerned about what our collective dependence on digital devices is doing to our mental health, and why a dopamine fast is the best thing you can do in 2022.

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