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Language Matters: It Is Time We Change How We Talk About Addiction and its Treatment

The way we communicate about addiction, its treatment, and treatment outcomes matters to individuals affected by addiction, their families, and communities.

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Language matters in addiction and recovery

Language Matters in the Recovery Movement

Language matters. The words we use to describe substance use disorder, people using drugs, and people in recovery has the potential to cause a significantly detrimental impact in a number…

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What Do You Say Before You Relapse? How Language Use in a Peer-to-peer Online Discussion Forum Predicts Risky Drinking among Those in Recovery

Increasingly, seeking and providing support for relapse-prevention occurs in online environments and through mobile technologies. Communication in these environments may not only have an impact on relapse prevention through increasing…

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Words Matter: How Language Choice Can Reduce Stigma

This resource examines the role of language in perpetuating substance use disorder stigma, followed by tips for assessing when and how we may be using stigmatizing language, and steps for…

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Toward an Addiction-ary: Language, Stigma, Treatment, and Policy

Presented at the National Association of Drug Court Professionals Conference in Anaheim, CA in June 2016

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The Words We Use Matter. Reducing Stigma through Language

Stigma remains the biggest barrier to addiction treatment faced by patients. The terminology used to describe addiction has contributed to the stigma. Many derogatory, stigmatizing terms were championed throughout the…

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The Language of Recovery

This fact sheet was developed to educate individuals on the importance of language and on stigmatizing words that have the ability to demean or demoralize those in or seeking recovery.…

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Positive Language Guidelines

The language used to describe concepts, communities, and human beings is of the utmost importance. Stigmatizing and negative language used to describe individuals who use substances, have a substance use…

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Language of Recovery

Displays current terminology and alternative terminology. The most respectful way of referring to people is as people.

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Language Matters. Words Have Power

The use of affirming language inspires hope and advances recovery.The ATTC Network uses affirming language to promote the promises of recovery by advancing evidence-based and culturally informed practices.

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