Edging Forward: How the UN’s language on drugs has advanced since 1990 Diplomatic processes at the United Nations are notoriously slow and difficult, perhaps increasingly so in a modern world of multi-polar geopolitics and tensions. This is c…

Stigmatization of people who inject drugs (PWID) by pharmacists in Tajikistan: sociocultural context and implications for a pharmacy-based prevention approach Umedjon Ibragimov, Hannah L. Cooper, Regine Haardörfer, Kristin&…

For John, a heroin user for seven years, there were a few snags that, for a while, held him back from getting stable on methadone treatment. Staff in two methadone clinics wanted him to give urine samples in front of them – a level of intrusi…

Drug addiction stigma in the context of methadone maintenance therapy: an investigation into understudied sources of stigma. Earnshaw V, Smith L, Copenhaver M. Int J Ment Health Addict. 2014;11(1):110–22. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/…

A community of Scots in recovery from substance abuse has grown rapidly over the past decade. At their first ever national conference, they told BuzzFeed News about their plans – inspired by the LGBT pride movement. A group of people in recov…

Addressing Stigma in Medication Treatment of Adolescents With Opioid Use Disorder. Bagley SM, Hadland SE, Carney BL, Saitz R. J Addict Med. 2017 Aug 1. doi: 10.1097/ADM.0000000000000348. Abstract https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28767537