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Sally Satel, M.D.

Author of PC, M.D. How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine

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  • Articles
  • Addiction/Substance Abuse
  • Bioethics
  • Book Reviews
  • Medicine and Psychiatry
  • Mental Health
  • Organ Policy
  • Public Health
  • Tobacco Harm Reduction
  • Amicus Briefs
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  • Books
  • Testimony and Related Commentary

Articles

The Year In E-Cigarettes: The Good, The Bad, And Some Reasons For Optimism

Forbes, December 31, 2016

Advocacy From the Edge: Carrie Fisher spent decades advocating for mental health treatment and against stigma. Here’s how we should honor her.

Slate, December 27, 2016

Dear Surgeon General and Public Health Agencies, Anti-Vaping Polices Are Bad for Public Health

Sally Satel and David Sweanor, RealClear Health, December 19, 2016

Big Tobacco Is Giving Away Money: Researchers Should Take It

Forbes, December 8, 2016

Shortcuts to Addiction

Wall Street Journal, December 7, 2016

What the Surgeon General Gets Wrong About Addiction

Sally Satel and Samuel Candler Dobbs, RealClear Health, November 30, 2016

The Addiction Doctor Isn’t in

RealClear Health, November 20, 2016

If Addiction is not Best Conceptualized a Brain Disease, then What Kind of Disease is it?

Sally Satel and Scott O. Lilienfeld, Neuroethics, November 17, 2016

You’ve Heard Of Trump Steaks, Now Trump Kidneys

Forbes, November 15, 2016

Could changes to a global tobacco treaty harm health?

Clive Bates, STAT, November 8, 2016

California Ballot Choices: To Protect Porn Stars But Not Smokers?

Forbes, October 17, 2016

It’s OK to Speculate About Trump’s Mental Health

Slate, October 13, 2016

Shameless Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Tries to Censor Researchers

Forbes, September 26, 2016

What to do about heroin addicts who keep OD’ing

New York Post, September 15, 2016

Vouchers and incentives can increase kidney donations and save lives

Stat News, September 13, 2016

A College Tuition Payment for Your Spare Kidney?

Slate, September 13, 2016

The Ritalin Generation

Wall Street Journal, September 11, 2016

Vapers Wary of FDA Deeming Rules

Forbes, August 16, 2016

Obamacare Is Hazardous To Smokers’ Health

Forbes, August 9, 2016

What’s the best way to battle the expanding Zika epidemic?

Washington Post, July 15, 2016

The Dearth of Donors: In-kind compensation for organs would save lives

National Review, June 27, 2016

Mental Health Reform Desperately Needed To Pass House And Senate

Forbes, June 8, 2016

Getting Meds: Why does government make it so hard?

Washington Monthly, June 2016

Is addiction a brain disease?

The Conversation, May 10, 2016

What The U.S. Should Learn From The UK’s Wisdom On E-Cigarettes

Forbes, May 9, 2016

When our reason is hijacked by an uncontrollable urge

Washington Post, April 29, 2016

What’s Really Killing India’s Smokers: Misinformation about e-cigarettes and vaping presents a growing threat to public health.

Wall Street Journal, April 25, 2016

Congress, Save E-Cigarettes From The FDA

Forbes, April 11, 2016

What Smart Folk Snort Coke

Wall Street Journal, April 11, 2016

A Prescription for Mental-Health Policy

Sally Satel and E. Fuller Torrey, National Affairs, Spring 2016

You Won’t Believe The Government Is Supporting This Crackpot Mental Health Therapy

Forbes, March 29, 2016

When Harm Reduction Harms Heroin Addicts

Forbes, March 24, 2016

Precision Psychiatry: Hype or Promise?

Los Angeles Review of Books, March 4, 2016

What Government Researchers Get Wrong About Addiction

Forbes, February 29, 2016

Exploring the mind’s power over the body

Washington Post, February 5, 2016

Can Shame Be Useful?

New York Times, January 23, 2016

The Year In E-Cigarettes: The Good, The Bad, The Reason For Optimism

Forbes, December 31, 2015

Generosity won’t fix our shortage of organs for transplants

Washington Post, December 28, 2015

What Drug Czar Botticelli Got Wrong On ’60 Minutes’

Forbes, December 14, 2015

How Bad Can a Federal Agency Be?

Sally Satel and E. Fuller Torrey, National Review, December 11, 2015

Why HUD Should Allow Vaping In Public Housing

Forbes, November 17, 2015

Treatment Alone Won’t Stop Heroin Epidemic

Bloomberg, November 13, 2015

Should Drug Addicts Be Forced Into Treatment? Compelled Drug Addiction Treatment Works Because of Retention

New York Times, November 11, 2015

In fight against opioid crisis, civil commitment can save lives

Boston Globe, November 4, 2015

Diagnosing the urge to run for office

Politico, October 30, 2015

Keep Vaping China, Don’t Listen To The World Health Organization On E-Cigarettes

Forbes, October 21, 2015

How Vapers Can Help Smokers Quit

Forbes, October 6, 2015

Neurocentrism: Implications for Psychotherapy Practice and Research

Scott O. Lilienfeld, Seth J. Schwartz, Alan Meca, Katheryn C. Sauvigné, Sally Satel, The Behavior Therapist, October 2015

The Bioethics Dilemma

Pacific Standard Magazine, September 15, 2015

Why Public Health Advocates Care More About Heroin Addicts Than Smokers

Forbes, September 9, 2015

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Books

  • Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction

Appearances

  • Which Policy Most Effectively Prevents Harm: Prohibition or Legalization? Which Policy Most Effectively Prevents Harm: Prohibition or Legalization?
  • Should human kidneys be bought and sold? Should human kidneys be bought and sold?
  • The Sixth Vital Sign: Lessons of the Opiod Crisis The Sixth Vital Sign: Lessons of the Opiod Crisis
  • Did the government overcorrect on the opioid epidemic? Did the government overcorrect on the opioid epidemic?
  • TEDx Talk: Addiction: Facts and Comforting Fictions TEDx Talk: Addiction: Facts and Comforting Fictions
  • The Columbia Conference on Mental Health Journalism & Media The Columbia Conference on Mental Health Journalism & Media
  • A Panel Discussion: Understanding the 25th Amendment A Panel Discussion: Understanding the 25th Amendment
  • A Panel Discussion: Opioids and Orthopedics A Panel Discussion: Opioids and Orthopedics
  • Discussion: If Addiction is a Disease, What Kind of Disease is it? Discussion: If Addiction is a Disease, What Kind of Disease is it?
  • Sally Satel and Sandhya Raman on Congressional Efforts to Combat Opioid Epidemic Sally Satel and Sandhya Raman on Congressional Efforts to Combat Opioid Epidemic
  • Surgeon general urges public to carry opioid antidote Narcan Surgeon general urges public to carry opioid antidote Narcan
  • Why so many missed warning signs in the Florida shooting? Why so many missed warning signs in the Florida shooting?
  • Chairman Greg Walden on the opioid crisis: What can Congress do? Chairman Greg Walden on the opioid crisis: What can Congress do?
  • Is Addiction a Disease? An Interview with Dr. Sally Satel Is Addiction a Disease? An Interview with Dr. Sally Satel
  • Sally Satel on Combating the Opioid Crisis Sally Satel on Combating the Opioid Crisis
  • What if you could legally sell your kidney? What if you could legally sell your kidney?
  • Deaths of despair: Opioids, community, and the economy Deaths of despair: Opioids, community, and the economy
  • Discussing the opioid epidemic: Satel on C-SPAN’s ‘Washington Journal’ Discussing the opioid epidemic: Satel on C-SPAN’s ‘Washington Journal’
  • Hypocrisy of Harm Reduction: Dr. Sally Satel Assesses Public Health War on Vaping Hypocrisy of Harm Reduction: Dr. Sally Satel Assesses Public Health War on Vaping
  • Hope for Organ Markets? Hope for Organ Markets?
  • The War on Drugs: Featuring Gov. Gary Johnson and Dr. Kevin Sabet, Moderated by Dr. Sally Satel The War on Drugs: Featuring Gov. Gary Johnson and Dr. Kevin Sabet, Moderated by Dr. Sally Satel
  • Soul on the slab: is there no limit to what neuroscience can do? Soul on the slab: is there no limit to what neuroscience can do?
  • Brainwashed: The use and misuse of neuroscience Brainwashed: The use and misuse of neuroscience
  • After Words: Michael Gazzaniga, “Who’s in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain” After Words: Michael Gazzaniga, “Who’s in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain”
  • Compensating Organ Donors Compensating Organ Donors
  • When Altruism Isn’t Enough When Altruism Isn’t Enough
  • Sally Satel discusses PC, M.D. Sally Satel discusses PC, M.D.
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