Selected Publications

Lembke, A. The Smartphone Has Become the Modern-Day Hypodermic Needle, The Journal, Dublin, Ireland, October 2021

Lembke, A., Digital Addictions Are Drowning Us in Dopamine, The Wall Street Journal, August 13, 2021.

Lembke, A., Eyal, N. Is Social Media Hijacking our Minds?, Pairagraph: A hub of discourse between pairs of notable individuals, 2021. 

Lembke, A. Unsafe Supply: Why Making Controlled Prescription Drugs Available for Unsupervised Use Will Not Target the Syndemic of HIV, Hepatitis C, Overdose, and COVID-19, Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 2020 Sep;81(5):564-565.

Lembke, A., Raheemullah, A. Addiction and Exercise. In Noordsy DL, (editor). Lifestyle Psychiatry: Using Exercise, Diet and Mindfulness to Manage Psychiatric Disorders. Washington DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, 2019.

Lembke, A. Purdue Pharma is Done Promoting Opioids: Here’s Why It’s a Big Deal, Fortune Magazine, Feb 2018.

Lembke, A., Papac, J., Humphreys, K. Our Other Prescription Drug Problem, NEJM, 2018; 378(8):693-695.

Lembke, A., Humphreys, K. The Opioid Epidemic as a Watershed Moment for Physician Training in Addiction Medicine, Academic Psychiatry, 2018; 42(2):269-272.

Lembke A. Can medical marijuana replace opioids to relieve cancer pain? HemOnc Today. 2018;19(24):13.

Prekupec, M.P., Sussman, R.S., Sher, Y., Lembke, A. Relapse on ketamine followed by severe and prolonged withdrawal: A cautionary case and review of potential medical therapies. J Nat Sci, 3(10):e450, 2017.

Lembke, A. The Opioid Epidemic is a Symptom of our Faltering Health Care System, The British Medical Journal, published online October 30, 2017

Chen, J., Humphreys, K., Shah, N.H., Lembke, A. Distribution of Opioids by Different Types of Medicare Prescribers, JAMA Internal Medicine, 2016; 176(2):259-261.

Lembke, A. Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop, Johns Hopkins University Press, November 15, 2016. Named by NYTs columnist Abigail Zuger as one of the top five books to read to understand the opioid epidemic: “The best summary around of the perils of owning a prescription pad.”

Lembke, A. Prince, opioids and the rest of us: America needs a massive public education campaign to help people hooked on Percocet and related drugs, New York Daily News Op-Ed, May 11, 2016.

Lembke, A. Be sure the check the PDMP before prescribing controlled medications, Psychiatric News, June 17, 2016. http://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.pn.2016.pp6b2

Lembke, A. The Compassionate Doctor, the Narcissistic Injury, and the Prescription Opioid Epidemic. The Fix, Nov 30, 2016. https://www.thefix.com/compassionate-doctor-narcissistic-injury-and-prescription-opioid-epidemic   

Haug, N.A., Bielenberg, J., Linder, S. H., Lembke, A. Assessment of provider attitudes toward #naloxone on Twitter. Substance Abuse, 2016; 37(1):35-41.

Maclean D, Gupta S, Lembke A, Manning CD, Heer J. Forum77: An Analysis of an Online Health Forum Dedicated to Addiction Recovery. ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), ; 2015; Role: Data analysis, manuscript preparation. *Best Paper Honorable Mention.

Lembke, A., Cheng, Niushen. A Qualitative Study of Treatment-Seeking Heroin Users in Contemporary China, Addiction Science and Clinical Practice, 2015;10:23.

Humphreys, K., Lembke, A. Recovery oriented policies and care systems in the U.K. and the USA. Drug and Alcohol Review, 2014; 33 (1):13-18.

Lembke, A., Sacrifice, stigma, and free-riding in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA): A new perspective on behavior change in self-help organizations for addiction. In: University, S. (ed.), 2013.

Lembke, A. From Self-Medication to Intoxication: Time for a Paradigm Shift. Addiction, 2013; 108(4):670-671.

Lembke, A. Time to Abandon the Self-Medication Hypothesis in Patients with Psychiatric Disorders. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 2012, 38(6):524-529. 

Lembke, A. Why doctors prescribe opioids to known opioid abusers. New England Journal of Medicine. October 25, 2012; 367(17):1580-1581.