In this blog post and guide, Dr. Stephen Parkin shares his observations about the use of stigmatising words and phrases in academic writing, and offers a list of person-centred and pragmatic alternatives.

La nécessité de changer notre langage en ce qui concerne les personnes qui consomment des drogues est devenue un sujet de discussion croissant, mais il reste encore un long chemin à parcourir. Les personnes qui consomment des drogues sont très diversifiées et leur relation avec la consommation de drogues prend de nombreuses formes différentes. Les approches prohibitionnistes actuelles de la consommation de drogues et la rhétorique de la « guerre contre les drogues » ne font pas grand-chose pour encourager un langage qui reconnaît cette diversité. Au lieu de cela, il promeut et maintient des...

Stigma among healthcare providers is a barrier to the effective delivery of mental health services in primary care. Few studies have been conducted in primary care settings comparing the attitudes of healthcare providers and experiences of people with mental illness who are service users in those facilities. Such research is necessary across diverse global settings to characterize stigma and inform effective stigma reduction.

Qualitative research was conducted on mental illness stigma in primary care settings in one low-income country (Nepal), two lower-middle income countries (India, Tunisia...

Stigma is a major barrier to the well-being and recovery of people with lived and living experience of substance use disorders.

This animated video about two friends, Alex and Sam, explores the devastating impact of substance use stigma and how to challenge it in our communities.

Drawing on themes from CCSA’s qualitative research on stigma, “My Journey Starts with Compassion” tells a story about friendship, kindness and changing negative perceptions of people who use substances.

A special issue of the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction will be devoted to empirical papers and related to Stigma, Mental Illness and Substance Use.

The special issue is intended to highlight a broad range of issues, perspectives and stigma reduction approaches from anthropology, history, medicine, policy sciences, psychiatry, psychology, public health, social sciences. The International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction are particularly interested in manuscripts that discuss and evaluate and different perspectives, methods and strategies to comprehend and reduce...