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Sally Satel, M.D.

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

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Articles

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

The New York Times, June 4, 2022

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

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

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

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 Journal, Volume 1, Number 1

‘White Market Drugs’ review: Addiction by prescription

Wall Street Journal, October 21, 2020

Rethink Crisis Response (Unabridged Version)

Reason, October 2020

Rethink Crisis Response

Reason, October 2020

The Hypocritical Oath: Doctors should not pretend that they are experts in how society should be run.

Persuasion, August 23, 2020

Questionable Psychological Science Won’t Change Police

Sally Satel and Scott O. Lilienfeld, National Review, August 3, 2020

Take Kanye West’s illness more seriously than his presidential ambitions

USA Today, July 22, 2020

Take Kanye West’s illness more seriously than his presidential ambitions (Better Version with Hyperlinks)

USA Today, July 22, 2020

‘The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code’ Review: Robbing Fear of Its Power

Wall Street Journal, June 14, 2020

The Public-Health Establishment Has Diminished Its Credibility

National Review, June 10, 2020

Is a Mental-Health Crisis Looming?

National Review, May 5, 2020

What We Know—and Still Need to Learn—About Coronavirus and Nicotine

The Dispatch, April 30, 2020

Behind West Virginia’s opioid crisis, an addiction to money

The Washington Post, April 23, 2020

Give Hospital Workers Hazard Pay

Wall Street Journal, April 2, 2020

What The Supreme Court’s Decision Reveals About The Flaws In The Insanity Defense

Forbes, March 27, 2020

The E-Cigarette Revolution That Wasn’t (Annotated version)

National Affairs, March 24, 2020

The E-Cigarette Revolution That Wasn’t

National Affairs, March 24, 2020

Inside the Controversy over ‘the Chinese Virus’

National Review, March 23, 2020

Trump’s Good Idea: Get Drug Regulators Out Of Vaping

Forbes, February 18, 2020

Scrutiny Of Painkiller Distributors Harms Patients

Forbes, December 23, 2019

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Books

  • Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction
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