Words Matter: Improving the Substance Use Conversation A Guide for Health Care Teams

This Guide to meant to help health care teams recognize, rethink and remediate the stigma and bias of words commonly used in caring for people with the chronic disease of substance use disorder:

Source

Maine Equality (MEC)

Link

https://www.maine.gov/future/sites/maine.gov.future/files/inline-files/QC_Words…

File Size

946 KB KB

Year

2018

Format

Instrument/Protocol

Public domain

Topic

Organizational Readiness

Patient Engagement

Social Determinants of Health

Stigma

Audience

Behavioral Health Providers

Medical Providers

Other Team Members

Resource Type

PDF

Use

Substance Use Disorder Awareness and Education

Special Collection

MAT Tools and Resources