This book explores the stigma of addiction and discusses ways to improve negative attitudes for better health outcomes. Written by experts in the field of addiction, the text takes a reader-friendly approach to the essentials of addiction stigma across settings and demographics. The authors reveal the challenges patients face in the spaces that should be the safest, including the home, the workplace, the justice system, and even the clinical community. The text aims to deliver tools to professionals who work with individuals with substance use disorders and lay persons seeking to combat stigma and promote recovery.
The Stigma of Addiction is an excellent resource for psychiatrists, addiction medicine specialists, students across specialties, researchers, public health officials, and individuals with substance use disorders and their families.
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Introduction.- Self-Stigma and Addiction.- Family, Stigma, and Addiction.- Relationships, Stigma, and Addiction.- The Language of Stigma and Addiction.- Doctors, Stigma, and Addiction.- The Stigma of Addiction Treatments.- Race, Stigma, and Addiction.- The Legal System, Stigma, and Addiction.- The Stigma of Addiction in the Workplace.- The Stigma of Addiction in the Media.
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Jonathan D. Avery, MDDepartment of Psychiatry Weill Cornell Medical College525 East 68th Street, Box 140New York, NY 10065
Joseph J. Avery, J.D., M.A.Department of Psychology Princeton University522 Peretsman Scully Hall Princeton, NJ 08540
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