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Population Health Research Brief Series

We Need to Change the Language we use to Describe Individuals with Substance Use Issues

Austin McNeill Brown

November 2019

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People with substance use disorders (SUDs) are highly stigmatized worldwide. This research brief describes the results from several studies on unconscious bias and negative language used to describe individuals with SUDs.

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