Email UpdatesAddiction Language Guide
This guide provides research about language, recommended language and rationale to avoid stigma around substance use, and implementation resources to address stigma in medical facilities.
Stigma
Address and seek to change stigmatizing attitudes towards substance use disorders and MAT services among patients, providers, other staff, community members, and policymakers.
Remove Stigma: Talk with Your Patients About Substance Use Disorder
This sheet from the CDC provides techniques for talking with patients and their families about substance use disorder.
Organizational Action Plan
This sheet provides ideas to tackle stigma and develop an Action Plan to reduce stigma in organizations.
Connect2Prevent – Connect with Your Family and Help Prevent Opioid Use
This training series includes easy-to-follow lessons designed by experts to help participants feel more confident talking to their loved ones about drug use.
Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication
These principles from the CDC are intended to help public health professionals, particularly health communicators, within and outside of CDC ensure their communication products and strategies adapt to the specific cultural, linguistic, environmental, and historical situation of each population or audience of focus.
Words Matter - Terms to Use and Avoid When Talking About Addiction
This page offers background information and tips for providers to keep in mind while using person-first language, as well as terms to avoid to reduce stigma and negative bias when discussing addiction.
SAMHSA Recovery and Recovery Support
This SAMHSA page provides guiding principles and resources on recovery and recovery support for people with substance use disorder.
Advisory: Cannabidiol (CBD) – Potential Harms, Side Effects, and Unknowns
This advisory introduces readers to cannabidiol (CBD), how it is derived, and how it differs from delta-9 THC and other cannabinoids. It also focuses on the risks and harms of CBD and clarifies common misconceptions about CBD.
Fentanyl Drug Checking and Screening: Roundtable on Community Perspectives Summary Report
These proceedings summarize the discussion from the harm reduction community roundtable and supplemental individual interviews, inclusive of representatives from national and local harm reduction organizations, state and local government agencies, tribal organizations, and researchers who have experience distributing fentanyl test strips (FTS) or are knowledgeable about FTS specifically or drug checking more generally.
2022 National Drug Control Strategy
This inaugural National Strategy proposes bold, targeted, and consequential actions to bend the curve on overdose deaths in the immediate term and reduce substance use and its damaging consequences in the US over the longer term.