Additional positive terms for all groups included long-term recovery.Social implicationsThe results suggest that the continued use of terms like addict, alcoholic, abuser and junkie can induce stigma in multiple stakeholders. The use of more positive terms such as person with a SUD or person in ...
19% stated they would never take the vaccine, while just 4% said they would take the vaccine “without hesitation” (compared with 16% of all respondents).
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recoveryhealth professionalsBackground : Labels such as "addict" and "substance abuser" have been found to elicit implicit and explicit stigma among the general public previously. The difference in the levels of this bias among individuals in recovery and those employed in the health profession has...
Findings Person-first language overlooks the significance of identity-first language to people in 12-step recovery. This oversight is linked to the logic of stigma reduction which excludes all identity-first language by association rather than assessing the impact of such terms on a case-by-case ...