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Sally Satel, M.D.

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

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Sally Satel, M.D.

The Best Minds: A Conversation with Jonathan Rosen

April 25, 2023
The Best Minds: A Conversation with Jonathan Rosen

A Conversation On Opioids-Sally Satel MD and Keith Humphreys PhD

April 13, 2023
A Conversation On Opioids-Sally Satel MD and Keith Humphreys PhD

The Ethics of Organ Markets, Glenn Loury & Sally Satel, The Glenn Show

April 12, 2023
The Ethics of Organ Markets, Glenn Loury & Sally Satel, The Glenn Show

Opioids and Appalachia—An Origin Story

National Affairs, Spring 2023

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

Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction (Textbook)

Edited By Nick Heather, Matt Field, Antony C. Moss, Sally Satel, Routledge, March 7, 2022
Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction (Textbook)

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 Journal, Volume 1, 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

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  • Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction
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