The Public Stigma of Mental Illness and Drug Addiction

By P. Corrigan, S. Kuwabara, John O’Shaughnessy. 2009

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Epidemiology, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• The stigmatization of problem drug users: A narrative literature review (2013, background): “Corrigan and Penn (1999) identify three strategies aimed at reducing stigma in the mental health field: protest, education and contact. Applying these to the addiction field, there may be scope for advocacy groups to challenge some of the highly stigmatizing language and stories that appear in the m”
• Recovery and desistance: what the emerging recovery movement in the alcohol and drug area can learn from models of desistance from offending (2017, neutral): “Corrigan et al. (2009) found that the general public perceived addiction to drugs to be more blameworthy and more dangerous than mental illness, and that their problems were seen as more their own fault, therefore addicts were likely to be subject to greater stigma and discrimination.”