Using appropriate language to describe mental illness and addiction can help to reduce stigma and improve how people with these conditions are treated in health care settings and throughout society.
Interview with Dr. Nora Volkow on stigma against people who use drugs and its effects on care delivery and the burden of substance use disorders. 11m 26s Download Between 1999 and 2017, more than ...
Based on the most recent statistics from the 2024 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 48.4 million Americans (16.8%) aged 12 and older were diagnosed with a substance use disorder (SUD) in the ...
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Stigma can be defined, studied, and measured. When stigma is promoted through the organizations and systems that govern daily life, it is called structural stigma. Stigma itself is a powerful social ...
The British Psychological Society is calling for changes for how we talk about fatness, suggesting we should no longer use the phrase “obese people”, but instead, “people with obesity” or “people ...
Mental health stigma refers to societal disapproval or when society places shame on people who live with a mental illness or seek help for emotional distress, such as anxiety, depression, bipolar ...
In a perspective published in Neuropsychopharmacology, leaders from the National Institutes of Health address how using appropriate language to describe mental illness and addiction can help to reduce ...