The seven main types of stigma include public, self, perceived, label, structural, health practitioner, and associative. It involves assigning people with certain traits and can have harmful effects ...

WILKES-BARRE — The Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (DDAP), in partnership with Penn State Harrisburg’s Douglas W. Pollock Center for Addiction Outreach and Research, Shatterproof, ...

Stigma has a profound impact on health outcomes must be addressed Investing in stigma reduction in health care systems will yield results across the care continuum, and should be supported by ...

In recent years substance-related overdoses, many of which involve opioids, have contributed to more deaths than car accidents. Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) is a medical condition that continues to be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Advocates say New Jersey’s focus on harm reduction reflects the state’s growing willingness to listen to people with lived ...

The Camden County Board of Commissioners and the Addiction Awareness Task Force (AATF) launched the Break the Stigma campaign to change the conversation around addiction and recovery. This initiative ...

New research shows that weight stigma—and not weight itself—has the biggest impact on mental health and healthy behaviors in the years after weight-loss surgery. Researchers found that patients who ...

Excerpted from "The Harm Reduction Gap: Helping Individuals Left Behind by Conventional Drug Prevention and Abstinence-Only Addiction Treatment" by Sheila P. Vakharia ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Marianne is a Boston resident who has been in recovery for ...

Stigma plays an incredibly large role in the lives of those with human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV. University of Iowa researchers Oluwafemi Adeagbo and Oluwaseun Badru are taking a magnifying ...