"Sally Satel, a psychiatrist who specializes in treating addiction, says he is both right and wrong. Writing for The Free Press, she applauds RFK Jr. for insisting that addicts have to get clean, rather than have the people around them indulge their addiction. But she worries that he will cut the availability of pharmaceuticals such as m…
"Sally Satel, a psychiatrist who specializes in treating addiction, says he is both right and wrong. Writing for The Free Press, she applauds RFK Jr. for insisting that addicts have to get clean, rather than have the people around them indulge their addiction. But she worries that he will cut the availability of pharmaceuticals such as methadone that have proven useful in addicts’ recovery. “People who have recovered from addiction often have a fierce commitment to helping fellow addicts. But they can be too attached to the methods by which they themselves achieved sobriety,” she writes."
Sally is exhibit A of the Shirky Principle and thus is much less reliable than is RFK Jr in what actually works. Think about it... if there are no addicts then Sally does not have any work to validate her high status credentials.
"Sally Satel, a psychiatrist who specializes in treating addiction, says he is both right and wrong. Writing for The Free Press, she applauds RFK Jr. for insisting that addicts have to get clean, rather than have the people around them indulge their addiction. But she worries that he will cut the availability of pharmaceuticals such as methadone that have proven useful in addicts’ recovery. “People who have recovered from addiction often have a fierce commitment to helping fellow addicts. But they can be too attached to the methods by which they themselves achieved sobriety,” she writes."
Sally is exhibit A of the Shirky Principle and thus is much less reliable than is RFK Jr in what actually works. Think about it... if there are no addicts then Sally does not have any work to validate her high status credentials.