“This is not about destigmatizing people who use drugs,” Lembke, of the Stanford University School of Medicine, explains. “This is about helping people who have a form of psychopathology that we conceptualize as addiction, so that they can be healthier people and, ultimately, potentially mo...
Developers perpetuate the societal disparity that breeds harmful stigma when they resort to generic, undefined, almost pseudo-mystical “insanity.” It’s a brush-off and a hand-wave, painting mental illness as a magical black box we can neither see into nor ever hope to understand, rather tha...
Sometimes, the injuries were caused by a baseball bat, with shattered bones and bruising as bad as that from a car accident. More often than not, it was a knife. A slash across the forehead or cheek, leaving a scar etched across the face; a machete wound to the jaw, slicing through ...