Course: Understanding the Impact of Stigma on Addiction Treatment

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Things like the war on drugs, I’m going to go over that in three minutes or less, the social determinants of health, either in racism, all of these things contribute …

Think about the whole person. Are we addressing? Or are we, because we don’t have to be social workers, but are we thinking about how are we connecting them to …

Health-related stigma specifically describes the social-cultural process in which social groups are devalued, rejected, and excluded on the basis of a socially discredited health condition. So we can see already …

So that’s important, the reframing. Another thing that I’ll do, too, if there’s really stigmatizing language about one of my patients in the chart, I will actually call that provider …

Selected Resources Alang, S., Batts, H., Letcher, A., & Zelko, J. (2018, November). “We feel uncomfortable in most medical settings”: Perceptions of social exclusion among Black men and Latinx populations …

Structural stigma appears when particular policies of large entities (e.g., governments, companies, schools) together, with their institutional practices and norms, serve to reinforce stigmatizing beliefs and systems. Such policies and …

Ms. L. always showed up 10 minutes early for her appointments even though I always ran late. Her granddaughter would rest her cheek against Ms. L.’s chest, squishing one eye …