Stigma and the Toll of Addiction
- 2 April 2020
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 382 (14), 1289-1290
- https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp1917360
Abstract
Among the challenges in delivering appropriate care to the millions of people in the United States with substance use disorder is the chilling effect of stigma. Stigma impedes access to treatment and care delivery and contributes to the disorder on the individual level.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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