Stigma as a fundamental hindrance to the United States opioid overdose crisis response. Tsai AC, Kiang MV, Barnett ML, Beletsky L, Keyes KM, McGinty EE, et al. (2019)  PLoS Med 16(11): e1002969. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002969 https://j…

Kanada. Guide: Overcoming Stigma Through Language: A Primer  Publication date: 2019  https://www.ccsa.ca/sites/default/files/2019-09/CCSA-Language-and-Stigma-in-Substance-Use-Addiction-Guide-2019-en.pdf

Irland. Long-term methadone maintenance treatment: Stigma and social isolation Mirroring trends throughout Europe, there has been a distinct rise in the age of Ireland’s opiate users who are in treatment. In 2015, 42.5% of treated opiate users nati…

USA. How the Drug User Became a Junkie Four years before William Burroughs’ Junkie was published, Norma Lee Browning, a reporter for the Chicago Daily Tribune, described how a middle-aged housewife had gone from a “pretty woman” to “an old tim…

Factor structure, internal reliability and construct validity of the Methadone Maintenance Treatment Stigma Mechanisms Scale (MMT-SMS). Smith LR, Mittal ML, Wagner K, Copenhaver MM, Cunningham CO, Earnshaw VA. Addiction. 2019 Sep 3. doi: 10.1111/a…

#IAmNotDangerous and the politics of stigma The Lancet Psychiatry, Volume 6, Issue 10, 793 (Editorial) https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(17)30242-0/fulltext