The Stigma of Addiction: An Essential Guide - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3030025799 ISBN 13: 9783030025793

Verlag: Springer, 2019

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This book explores the stigma of addiction and discusses ways to improve negative attitudes for better health outcomes.  Written by experts in the field of addiction, the text takes a reader-friendly approach to the essentials of addiction stigma across settings and demographics.  The authors reveal the challenges patients face in the spaces that should be the safest, including the home, the workplace, the justice system, and even the clinical community. The text aims to deliver tools to professionals who work with individuals with substance use disorders and lay persons seeking to combat stigma and promote recovery.

The Stigma of Addiction is an excellent resource for psychiatrists, addiction medicine specialists, students across specialties, researchers, public health officials, and individuals with substance use disorders and their families.

 

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Jonathan D. Avery, MD
Department of Psychiatry
Weill Cornell Medical College
525 East 68th Street, Box 140
New York, NY 10065

 

Joseph J. Avery, J.D., M.A.
Department of Psychology
Princeton University
522 Peretsman Scully Hall
Princeton, NJ 08540

 

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This book explores the stigma of addiction and discusses ways to improve negative attitudes for better health outcomes.  Written by experts in the field of addiction, the text takes a reader-friendly approach to the essentials of addiction stigma across settings and demographics.  The authors reveal the challenges patients face in the spaces that should be the safest, including the home, the workplace, the justice system, and even the clinical community. The text aims to deliver tools to professionals who work with individuals with substance use disorders and lay persons seeking to combat stigma and promote recovery.

 

The Stigma of Addiction is an excellent resource for psychiatrists, addiction medicine specialists, students across specialties, researchers, public health officials, and individuals with substance use disorders and their families.

 

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3030025799
• ISBN 13: 9783030025793
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232
• Herausgeber: Avery Jonathan D., Avery Joseph J.
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