Reducing stigma is crucial for facilitating recovery from psychological problems. Viewing
these problems biomedically may reduce the tendency to blame affected persons, but critics …

The stigma and social rejection faced by people with a mental disorder constitute a major
barrier to their well-being and recovery. Medicalization has been welcomed as a strategy to …

What is 'addiction'? What does it say about us, our social arrangements and our political
preoccupations? Where is it going as an idea, and what is at stake in its ongoing …

Background Human beings have long consumed opiates and opioids for pleasure and as a
treatment for numerous ailments, most notably pain. North America is currently in the grips of …

Objective Harmful drinkers represent an important Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) group in
public health terms, accounting for significant health and social costs. However, harmful …

Contemporary usage of addiction is contradictory and confusing; the term is highly
stigmatizing but popularly used to describe almost any strong desire, passion or pursuit …

The prominence of neuroscience in the public sphere has escalated in recent years,
provoking questions about how the public engages with neuroscientific ideas …

In this paper, we claim that we can only seek to eradicate the stigma associated with the
contemporary opioid overdose epidemic when we understand how opioid stigma and the …

Alcohol problems are amongst the most stigmatised of conditions, resulting in multiple
additional harms for people with alcohol use disorder. Alcohol stigma encompasses widely …

Abstract 'Alcohol use disorder'(AUD) is used by several contemporary conceptualizations to
identify, treat and prevent problems associated with alcohol use. Such conceptualizations …