Alternative takes from Sally Satel MD. Sally Satel is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC, medical director at a methadone clinic, and lecturer at the Yale University School of Medicine
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The Story of Narcan: Why did it take half a century for this drug with its Lazarus-like properties to become available without a prescription?
Dr. Solomon Snyder sought to identify the brain receptor for dopamine. His research revolutionized the treatment of mental illness
The Department of Health and Human Services recently sought advice from patients, clinicians and public health experts on addiction treatments supported by “rigorous, empirical evidence of effectiveness.” Health and Human Services endorses medications to address opioid addiction, but there are actually no medications to address addiction to stimulants such as cocaine and methamphetamine.
Big Tech faces a tsunami of litigation, but it’s time for cooler heads to prevail.
Dear Readers, Here is a short essay on psychotherapy in the form of a book review.
Teenagers shouldn’t start vaping, but the FDA’s approval of flavored vapes offers new hope for anyone who wants to quit smoking cigarettes, which are far deadlier.
What follows is a comment that we (Clive Bates, Stephanie Miller, Brad Rodu, David Sweanor, and I) submitted yesterday to the FDA in response to the agency’s draft guidance for industry on flavors in electronic nicotine devices and use in youth.
The science of addiction is not as simple as Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok’s legal opponents want you to think.
Originally published in The Free Press.
Originally published in Commentary.
