Addressing Stigma
Removing Barriers and Making Change
Stigma is often one of the largest barriers to recovery access. This topic discusses some of the best strategies to help lower those barriers. While changing the stigma of substance use and recovery can feel overwhelming, there are ways for use to help society proactively overcome this barrier.
On this page, you'll find resources that discuss the key elements of addressing stigma. You can find the resources on this topic and a description of each item in the list below. You can click on the title of the resource to jump down to it on the page, or simply scroll down to see previews of each resource.
Available Resources
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Videos
- Estigma 101 - Spanish Stigma Webinar (~1.5 hours)
- Addressing Stigma and Removing Barriers (~1 hour)
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Articles and Blogs
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Recovery Iowa Resources
Videos
This webinar is entirely in Spanish and discusses stigma in the recovery community.
Addressing stigma is important to helping more people in recovery. In this video, CCAR provides resources and strategies.
Articles and Blogs
This article from Hopkins Medicine discusses certain strategies that can reduce stigma within recovery spaces. This includes using certain non-stigmatizing language.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse has done extensive research on how stigma affects the recovery community. In this article, they discuss what stigma is and its effects.
Language plays an important role in how stigma is enforced. This guide from SAMHSA breaks down how language can be used to combat those harmful ideas.
In this guide from CCAR, they break down what language should be standard across recovery spaces to help reduce the effects of stigma.
In 2013, William White posted this blog discussing how stigma interacts with the recovery community, as well as the idea of recoveryism—which describes a line of thought in which one recovery pathway is superior to others.
Recovery Iowa Resources
As you discuss stigma and stigma reduction in your recovery spaces, we invite you to use this page from Recovery Iowa. Here, we break down what stigma is, as well as how you can navigate it in your day-to-day.