Oprah Winfrey

Your child's device is a drug to them.

And so trying to remove the drug is like your child is in the midst of taking that drug, and you're trying to take that drug away from them.

And you're going to have, you know, meltdowns.

You say, smartphone is the modern day hyperdermic needle, delivering digital dopamine 24-7.

Hello and a warm welcome to you.

Thanks for being with me here on the Oprah Podcast.

Recently, I saw this headline in the New York Times, America's children are unwell.

The Washington Post declared, managing technology has become an overwhelming part of modern parenting.

And I bet that resonates with a lot of you.

So I wanted to dive deeper into tech addiction in children, because I know that this is not just a headline amidst the hundreds of bits of bad news that we're inundated with every day.

I got a call from one of my cousins

in Jackson, Mississippi, who watches the podcast and saw our episode on Gen Z tech addiction.

And she said that when she tried to take away her child's device, her child became so violent that she was really shaking up about it and

really so concerned and asked me, what am I supposed to do?

And that's why I invited Dr. Anna Lembke here to be here.

She's a psychiatrist and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic.

That's a lot to say.

It's a mouthful.

It's a mouthful.

But her New York Times bestseller, Dopamine Nation,