Drug-related stigma presents barriers to effectively supporting clients who use drugs. Our biases are learned from a culture that stigmatizes drug use and ostracizes those with substance use disorders. This three-hour training will focus on identifying our biases, unpacking social stigma surrounding people who use drugs, and practicing actions we can take to address them.
Learning Objectives:
- Unpack drug related stigma at the community, individual, and structural level
- Gain a framework (ladder of inference) and tools to examine personal biases and unpack them
- Learn about the manifestations of drug-related stigma in media, policies, politics, etc.
- Develop strategies to challenge workplace/community policies and culture that perpetuate stigma
- Build skills to interrupt/challenge drug-related stigma at the interpersonal level
Topic: Harm reduction, Health & Racial Equity, Opioids, Stigma, Substances: non-opioid, Treatment & Recovery
Audience: Employers/worksites, Providers, Substance Use Services, People in recovery, General Public
