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Sally Satel, M.D.

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

  • About the Author
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  • Articles
  • Addiction/Substance Abuse
  • Bioethics
  • Book Reviews
  • Medicine and Psychiatry
  • Mental Health
  • Organ Policy
  • Public Health
  • Tobacco Harm Reduction
  • Amicus Briefs
  • Appearances
  • Books
  • Testimony and Related Commentary

Book Reviews

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

Washington Post, October 6, 2022

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

Wall Street Journal, March 13, 2022

‘Wounding Warriors’ Review: Ready But Not Able

Wall Street Journal, September 12, 2021

Two Heads Are Better Than One

Wall Street Journal, February 23, 2015

It’s Getting Better All the Time. Review of Shermer’s “The Moral Arc”

The Wall Street Journal, January 19, 2015

Descendant of Fear: On Scott Stossel’s My Age of Anxiety

The Millions, March 5, 2014

Where Was I? ‘The Answer to the Riddle Is Me’ and ‘I Forgot to Remember’

New York Times, February 14, 2014

Book Review: ‘American Psychosis’ by E. Fuller Torrey

Wall Street Journal, November 3, 2013

This Is Your Brain on Drugs

Wall Street Journal, March 2, 2012

Ordering Disorder

The New Republic, May 12, 2011

Drugs and Money

The New Republic, October 19, 2010

The Right (and Wrong) Answers

The New Republic, January 13, 2010

Health Gulf: Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington

Sally Satel and Howard I. Kushner, Commentary Magazine, May 2007

Mismanaged Care

The New York Times, April 8, 2007

9/11: Mental Health in the Wake of Terrorist Attacks

Psychiatric Services, February 2007

A Better Breed of American

The New York Times, February 26, 2006

‘The Ethical Brain’: Mind Over Gray Matter

The New York Times, June 19, 2005

Are You Normal? Think Again

The New York Times, October 10, 2004

When Shedding Pounds Meant Courting Danger

The Wall Street Journal, May 10, 2001

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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