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Sally Satel, M.D.

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

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

Articles

It’s Crazy to Execute the Insane

The Wall Street Journal, March 14, 2002

Menopause Envy: Not all guys have changed since September 11

The Women's Quarterly, Winter 2002

Public Health? Forget It; Cosmic Issues Beckon

The Wall Street Journal, December 13, 2001

‘You Dirty Rats’: Activists Jeopardize Biomedical Research

Tech Central Station, December 11, 2001

The Sorry CSAP Flap: It’s Worse Than It Looks

Tech Central Station, December 7, 2001

Medicine’s Race Problem (This article now appears in The Best American Science Writing 2002 edited by Matt Ridley, Ecco/Harper Collins)

Policy Review, December 2001

In Focus: Guest Editorial: Affirmative Action

Medscape, November 2001

Manager’s Journal: Good Grief: Don’t Get Taken by the Trauma Industry

Sally Satel and Christina Hoff Sommers, The Wall Street Journal, October 15, 2001

The Newest Feminist Icon—a Killer Mom

The Wall Street Journal, September 11, 2001

Race Belongs in the Stem Cell Debate

Sally Satel and Jon Entine, The Washington Post, September 9, 2001

Crazed and Confused: A murder defendant is forced to choose between the death penalty and permanent madness.

Slate, August 29, 2001

Keeping OxyContin Out of the Wrong Hands

The Boston Globe, August 11, 2001

Does Inequality Make You Sick? The dangers of the new public health crusade

Sally Satel and Theodore R. Marmor, The Weekly Standard, July 16, 2001

Mommy Undearest

Slate, July 3, 2001

When Shedding Pounds Meant Courting Danger

The Wall Street Journal, May 10, 2001

Drugs: A Decision, Not a Disease

The Wall Street Journal, April 27, 2001

Feminism Is Bad for Women’s Health Care

The Wall Street Journal, March 3, 2001

Who needs medical ethics?

Sally Satel and Christine Stolba, Commentary, February 2001

The indoctrinologists are coming

The Atlantic Monthly, January 2001

The Truth about Anti-depressants Will Cheer You Up

Ex Femina, October 2000

Learning to Say ‘I’ve Had Enough,’

The New York Times, July 14, 2000

Isn’t a Commando Raid ‘Psychologically Abusive’?

The Wall Street Journal, April 24, 2000

Prime-Time Psychosis

The New York Times, April 3, 2000

Baseball Is Off Its Rocker

The Wall Street Journal, January 1, 2000

Perspective On Hate; Badness Or Madness?

The Los Angeles Times, August 15, 1999

‘Parity’ Isn’t Charity

Sally Satel and Steven S. Sharfstein, The Wall Street Journal, June 11, 1999

An Overabundance Of Counseling?

The New York Times, April 23, 1999

A Battle Plan for the Drug War

The Wall Street Journal, October 12, 1998

Is Clinton Out of Control?

The Wall Street Journal, September 21, 1998

Addicted to Abolition

The Wall Street Journal, August 5, 1998

Opiates for the Masses

The Wall Street Journal, June 8, 1998

Do Drug Courts Really Work?

City Journal, Summer 1998

Don’t Forget the Addict’s Role in Addiction

The New York Times, April 4, 1998

For Addicts, Force Is the Best Medicine

The Wall Street Journal, January 6, 1998

Letters to the Editor:Those Who Really Need Marijuana

The Wall Street Journal, November 17, 1997

NOW’s Time Is Past

The Wall Street Journal, July 11, 1997

When Work Is The Cure

New York Times, May 10, 1997

The Politicization of Public Health

The Wall Street Journal, December 12, 1996

Is Your Kid on Drugs? The FDA Makes It Hard to Know

The Wall Street Journal, September 26, 1996

Where There’s Smoke, There’s Ire

The Wall Street Journal, July 16, 1996

Psychiatric Apartheid

The Wall Street Journal, May 5, 1996

The Madness of Deinstitutionalization

The Wall Street Journal, February 20, 1996

Treating Insanity Reasonably

City Journal, Winter 1995

The Wrong Fix

The Wall Street Journal, July 17, 1995

Yes, Drug Treatment Can Work

City Journal, Summer 1995

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Books

  • Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction

Appearances

  • Discussing mental health and Uvalde Discussing mental health and Uvalde
  • 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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