Discover How Changing Language Can Transform Addiction Recovery
Can a simple change in language truly impact someone's path to recovery?
In this episode, we explore this compelling question with Mary Brewster, from the Division of Harm Reduction.
We introduce the newly released stigma glossary, a resource designed to guide us toward more compassionate, person-first terminology.
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Feature Quote
We say in community stigma kills, and it does. It kills people because the stigma that they have experienced from the medical treatment, from the medical system, is so debilitating to them that they cannot walk through that door. It's so traumatizing to them. I had clients who were people who injected heroin and they would go into their primary care doctor because their foot hurt, because they wanted to talk to a podiatrist about their foot. They would talk to them about their substance use. I'm not there to talk about my substance use. I'm there to talk about my foot. Can we receive medical care for my foot? But it all comes back to oh, you're a person who uses drugs, so then that means everything about you is about that substance use.
Mary Brewster, OASAS Division of Harm Reduction
Transcript
Resources
- Stigma Glossary
- HOPEline: Call 1-877-8-HOPENY or Text HOPENY (467369)