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Sally Satel, M.D.

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

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  • Mental Health
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Sally Satel, M.D.

The Flawed Case for Executing the Mentally Ill

National Review, March 12, 2023

Vaping: The Great Innovation Public Health Failed to Embrace

Sensible Medicine, March 3, 2023

Are Florida Universities Training Therapists to Be Political Activists?

Sally Satel and Richard Redding, National Review, February 25, 2023

Social-justice shrinks: how identity politics infected therapy

The Spectator, February 20, 2023

Vaping: The Great Innovation Public Health Failed to Embrace

Sensible Medicine, February 14, 2023

“The Moral Sense” and the Human Brain

Pepperdine School of Public Policy, January 27, 2023

We Have to Make Organ Donors Whole

Washington Monthly, January 17, 2023

The stories we tell about mental illness—others’ and our own

Washington Post, October 6, 2022

America Should Allow Death Row Organ Donation

Persuasion, August 1, 2022

Give Donors a Tax Credit: Ideas to Increase Transplant Organ Donation

Sally Satel and Alan D. Viard, Regulation, Summer 2022

We Need Both High- and Low-Tech Approaches to the Shortage of Organs for Transplantation

By Henry I. Miller & Sally Satel, RealClearHealth, June 16, 2022

The ‘Open Secret’ on Getting a Safe Abortion Before Roe v. Wade

The New York Times, June 4, 2022

Discussing mental health and Uvalde

Fox News, The Journal Editorial Report, May 27, 2022
Discussing mental health and Uvalde

Which Policy Most Effectively Prevents Harm: Prohibition or Legalization?

Sphere, May 25, 2022
Which Policy Most Effectively Prevents Harm: Prohibition or Legalization?

The Limits of the DSM-5

National Review, April 28, 2022

How Rochelle Walensky Can Improve the CDC’s Pain Guidelines

By Sally Satel & Kate M. Nicholson, Washington Monthly, March 24, 2022

‘Healing’ Review: More Help for Mental Health, Please

Wall Street Journal, March 13, 2022

The Next Pig Thing in Medicine (Unabridged Version)

Wall Street Journal, February 9, 2022

The Next Pig Thing in Medicine

Wall Street Journal, February 9, 2022

Don’t Forget the Immunocompromised

The Dispatch, January 27, 2022

Sally Satel on Addiction, the Opioid Crisis, Deaths of Despair, and How Psychiatry Has Gone Woke

The Michael Shermer Show, January 22, 2022

Should human kidneys be bought and sold?

BBC Ideas, January 13, 2022
Should human kidneys be bought and sold?

The Remnant Podcast: Bad Medicine

The Dispatch, December 16, 2021

What is Happening to My Profession?

Quillette, November 30, 2021

Ending the Epidemic of Public-Nuisance Litigation

By Joel M. Zinberg & Sally Satel, National Review, November 16, 2021

Discussing “San Fransicko,” by Michael Shellenberger

October 21, 2021
Discussing “San Fransicko,” by Michael Shellenberger

The Experts Somehow Overlooked Authoritarians on the Left

The Atlantic, September 27, 2021

This Will Make Us All Freer

Common Sense with Bari Weiss, September 22, 2021

‘Wounding Warriors’ Review: Ready But Not Able

Wall Street Journal, September 12, 2021

The Opioids Crisis: Don’t Punish Pain Patients To Treat Opioid Addiction

Kate M. Nicholson and Sally Satel, The Washington Monthly, August 19, 2021

When Therapists Become Activists

Persuasion, August 13, 2021

‘Undoing Drugs’ Review: First, Do Less Harm

Wall Street Journal, July 22, 2021

Do No Harm: Critical Race Theory and Medicine

Liberties, Volume I, Number 4

The Sixth Vital Sign: Lessons of the Opiod Crisis

Grand Rounds, Columbia Psychiatry, June 23, 2021
The Sixth Vital Sign: Lessons of the Opiod Crisis

Vaccines probably don’t work on me. So I must rely on others to beat covid-19.

Washington Post, May 17, 2021

As FDA Readies Menthol Cigarette Ban, What’s Next?

The Washington Monthly, May 13, 2021

Keep Social-Justice Indoctrination Out of the Therapist’s Office

Quillette, May 7, 2021

‘The Quick Fix’ Review: A Bias Toward Easy Answers

Wall Street Journal, April 11, 2021

The Truth about Painkillers (Annotated version)

National Affairs, Spring 2021

The Truth about Painkillers

National Affairs, Spring 2021

As Overdoses Reach New Highs, Messaging on Addiction Needs More Nuance

Sally Satel and John F. Kelly, Washington Monthly, March 5, 2021

What It’s Like To Treat Opioid Addiction in Appalachia: Psychiatrist Sally Satel on her eye-opening year at a clinic in Ironton, Ohio

Nick Gillespie, Reason, April 2021

Don’t Tax Prescription Opioids

Sally Satel and Joel Zinberg, National Review, February 4, 2021

Don’t Undo the Trump Administration’s Mental-Health Reforms

E. Fuller Torrey and Sally Satel, National Review, February 1, 2021

‘Drug Use for Grown-Ups’ Review: A Dose of Dissent

Wall Street Journal, January 13, 2021

Steroid medication gave me disturbing side effects. They changed my life in bad — and good — ways.

Washington Post, December 6, 2020

Race for the Vaccine

Persuasion, November 16, 2020

Dark Genies, Dark Horizons: The Riddle of Addiction

Liberties, Volume I, Number 1

‘White Market Drugs’ review: Addiction by prescription

Wall Street Journal, October 21, 2020

Rethink Crisis Response (Unabridged Version)

Reason, October 2020

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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?
  • Discussing “San Fransicko,” by Michael Shellenberger Discussing “San Fransicko,” by Michael Shellenberger
  • 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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