Addiction/Substance Abuse
The Public Health Triumph No One’s Talking About
RFK Jr. Says Drug Addicts Need Tough Love. Is He Right? (Full article)
RFK Jr. Says Drug Addicts Need Tough Love. Is He Right?
Dr. Sally Satel, Psychiatrist, Lecturer at Yale University School of Medicine
Addiction Treatment Can Work Even When It’s Not Voluntary
A Conversation On Opioids-Sally Satel MD and Keith Humphreys PhD
Opioids and Appalachia—An Origin Story
Which Policy Most Effectively Prevents Harm: Prohibition or Legalization?
How Rochelle Walensky Can Improve the CDC’s Pain Guidelines
Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction (Textbook)
Sally Satel on Addiction, the Opioid Crisis, Deaths of Despair, and How Psychiatry Has Gone Woke
Ending the Epidemic of Public-Nuisance Litigation
Discussing “San Fransicko,” by Michael Shellenberger
The Opioids Crisis: Don’t Punish Pain Patients To Treat Opioid Addiction
‘Undoing Drugs’ Review: First, Do Less Harm
The Sixth Vital Sign: Lessons of the Opiod Crisis
The Truth about Painkillers (Annotated version)
The Truth about Painkillers
As Overdoses Reach New Highs, Messaging on Addiction Needs More Nuance
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
‘Drug Use for Grown-Ups’ Review: A Dose of Dissent
Dark Genies, Dark Horizons: The Riddle of Addiction
‘White Market Drugs’ review: Addiction by prescription
Behind West Virginia’s opioid crisis, an addiction to money
Scrutiny Of Painkiller Distributors Harms Patients
Why Do People Use Drugs?
How Much Do We Need to Know About Supervised Consumption Sites? It Depends Who’s Asking
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?
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
The FDA Was Wise to Approve a New Opioid: The use of Dsuvia is limited, and wounded soldiers need it.
Oregon Overshoots on Opioids
‘Dopesick’ and ‘The Addiction Solution’ Review: Examining an Epidemic
A Panel Discussion: Opioids and Orthopedics
Discussion: If Addiction is a Disease, What Kind of Disease is it?
Sally Satel and Sandhya Raman on Congressional Efforts to Combat Opioid Epidemic
Access to Maintenance Medications for Opioid Addiction Is Expanding. Prisons Need to Get on Board.
Surgeon general urges public to carry opioid antidote Narcan
