Patients with substance use disorders are subject to the harmful stress of stigma impeding recovery, and providers can sometimes inadvertently add to this stress. Today, American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry has Dr. Alena Balasanova from the University of Nebraska Medical Center speaking with us about the stigma toward substance use in America and how we, the medical community, can mediate and change the culture one word at a time.
Helpful links in podcast: end-overdose-epidemic.org/awareness/stigma/
Language Matters to the American Medical Association: end-overdose-epidemic.org/wp-content/u…mplate-1.pdf
