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Instruments to assess mental health-related stigma among health professionals and students in health sciences: a systematic psychometric review. Sastre-Rus M, García-Lorenzo A, Lluch-Canut MT, Tomás-Sábado J, Zabaleta-Del-Olmo E. J Adv Nurs. 2019…

The development and psychometric properties of a new scale to measure mental illness related stigma by health care providers: the Opening Minds Scale for Health Care Providers (OMS-HC).  Kassam A, Papish A, Modgill G, Patten S.  BMC Psyc…

Responding to experienced and anticipated discrimination (READ): anti -stigma training for medical students towards patients with mental illness - study protocol for an international multisite non-randomised controlled study. Deb T, Lempp H, Bakoli…

Barriers to Post-Acute Care for Patients on Opioid Agonist Therapy; An Example of Systematic Stigmatization of Addiction. Wakeman SE, Rich JD. J Gen Intern Med. 2017 Jan;32(1):17-19. doi: 10.1007/s11606-016-3799-7. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm…

USA. Doctors Call California’s Probe Of Opioid Deaths A ‘Witch Hunt’ The Medical Board of California has launched investigations into doctors who prescribed opioids to patients who, perhaps months or years later, fatally overdosed. The effort, dub…