Sally Satel, M.D.
What It’s Like To Treat Opioid Addiction in Appalachia: Psychiatrist Sally Satel on her eye-opening year at a clinic in Ironton, Ohio
Don’t Tax Prescription Opioids
Don’t Undo the Trump Administration’s Mental-Health Reforms
‘Drug Use for Grown-Ups’ Review: A Dose of Dissent
Steroid medication gave me disturbing side effects. They changed my life in bad — and good — ways.
Race for the Vaccine
Dark Genies, Dark Horizons: The Riddle of Addiction
‘White Market Drugs’ review: Addiction by prescription
Rethink Crisis Response (Unabridged Version)
Rethink Crisis Response
The Hypocritical Oath: Doctors should not pretend that they are experts in how society should be run.
Questionable Psychological Science Won’t Change Police
Take Kanye West’s illness more seriously than his presidential ambitions
Take Kanye West’s illness more seriously than his presidential ambitions (Better Version with Hyperlinks)
‘The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code’ Review: Robbing Fear of Its Power
The Public-Health Establishment Has Diminished Its Credibility
Is a Mental-Health Crisis Looming?
What We Know—and Still Need to Learn—About Coronavirus and Nicotine
Comment on HRSA organ donor reimbursement proposal
Behind West Virginia’s opioid crisis, an addiction to money
Give Hospital Workers Hazard Pay
What The Supreme Court’s Decision Reveals About The Flaws In The Insanity Defense
The E-Cigarette Revolution That Wasn’t (Annotated version)
The E-Cigarette Revolution That Wasn’t
Inside the Controversy over ‘the Chinese Virus’
Trump’s Good Idea: Get Drug Regulators Out Of Vaping
Scrutiny Of Painkiller Distributors Harms Patients
Why Do People Use Drugs?
The Vaping Overreaction: Politicians who ban flavors should brace for a surge in cigarette smoking and the use of questionable bootleg vaping products.
Putting teen vaping in perspective: Balancing protection of youth with health of smokers
Don’t ban nontobacco flavored e-cigarettes. Adults are in more danger than your kids.
How Much Do We Need to Know About Supervised Consumption Sites? It Depends Who’s Asking
‘Fraud in the Lab’ Review: Experiments in Doubt
The Truth About Painkiller Addiction
Opioid discontinuation as an institutional mandate: Questions and answers on why we wrote to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Did the government overcorrect on the opioid epidemic?
San Francisco, banning e-cigarettes is the worst solution to your least pressing problem
Opioid discontinuation as an institutional mandate: Questions and answers on why we wrote to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Relief For Pain Patients: CDC Makes Bold Clarification About Opioid Care In NEJM
Pain Patients Get Relief From Regulation
TEDx Talk: Addiction: Facts and Comforting Fictions
Confronting the Opioid Crisis
The Problem of Addiction: A Conversation with Sally Satel
Vaping Is Harm Reduction: The surgeon general is right on opioids, but wrong on tobacco.
The Columbia Conference on Mental Health Journalism & Media
Psychologists want to change how they treat men. That’s a problem.
The FDA Was Wise to Approve a New Opioid: The use of Dsuvia is limited, and wounded soldiers need it.
A Panel Discussion: Understanding the 25th Amendment
