This book explores the stigma of addiction and discusses ways to improve negative attitudes for better health outcomes. Written by experts in the field of addiction, the text takes a reader-friendly approach to the essentials of addiction stigma across settings and demographics. The authors reveal the challenges patients face in the spaces that should be the safest, including the home, the workplace, the justice system, and even the clinical community. The text aims to deliver tools to professionals who work with individuals with substance use disorders and lay persons seeking to combat stigma and promote recovery.
The Stigma of Addiction is an excellent resource for psychiatrists, addiction medicine specialists, students across specialties, researchers, public health officials, and individuals with substance use disorders and their families.
Introduction
Self-Stigma and Addiction
Family, Stigma, and Addiction
Relationships, Stigma, and Addiction
The Language of Stigma and Addiction
Doctors, Stigma, and Addiction
The Stigma of Addiction Treatments
Race, Stigma, and Addiction
The Legal System, Stigma, and Addiction
The Stigma of Addiction in the Workplace
The Stigma of Addiction in the Media.
Avery, Jonathan D.
Avery, Joseph J.
| ISBN | 978-3-030-02579-3 |
|---|---|
| Artikelnummer | 9783030025793 |
| Medientyp | Buch |
| Auflage | 1st ed. 2019 |
| Copyrightjahr | 2019 |
| Verlag | Springer, Berlin |
| Umfang | X, 220 Seiten |
| Abbildungen | X, 220 p. 8 illus., 6 illus. in color. |
| Sprache | Englisch |
