title: Developing a research agenda for understanding the stigma of addictions Part I: Lessons from the Mental Health Stigma Literature.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Although advocates and providers identify stigma as a major factor in confounding the recovery of people with SUDs, research on addiction stigma is lacking, especially when compared to the substantive literature examining the stigma of mental illness.
  
  
  METHODS
  A review of key studies from the stigma literature that yielded empirically supported concepts and methods from the mental health arena was contrasted with the much smaller and mostly descriptive findings from the addiction field.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Integration of this information led to Part I of this two part paper, development of a research paradigm seeking to understand phenomena of addiction stigma (eg, stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination) and its different types (public, self, and label avoidance).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In Part II paper (American Journal of Addictions, Vol 26, pages 67-74, this issue), we address how this literature informs a research program meant to develop and evaluate and stigma strategies (eg, education, contact, and protest). Both papers end with recommendations for next steps to jumpstart the addiction stigma portfolio. Here in Part I, we offer one possible list of key research issues for studies attempting to describe or explain addiction stigma. (Am J Addict 2017;26:59-66).
authors: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois.
authors: Patrick
authors: P
authors: Corrigan
authors: Department of Psychiatry, Greifswald University, Greifswald, Germany.
authors: Georg
authors: G
authors: Schomerus
authors: Midwest Harm Reduction Institute, Heartland Health Outreach, Inc., Chicago, Illinois.
authors: Valery
authors: V
authors: Shuman
authors: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois.
authors: Dana
authors: D
authors: Kraus
authors: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.
authors: Debbie
authors: D
authors: Perlick
authors: University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts.
authors: Autumn
authors: A
authors: Harnish
authors: RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California.
authors: Magdalena
authors: M
authors: Kulesza
authors: The Illinois Consortium on Drug Policy, Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois.
authors: Kathleen
authors: K
authors: Kane-Willis
authors: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois.
authors: Sang
authors: S
authors: Qin
authors: University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts.
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Smelson
mesh_terms: D016739:Behavior, Addictive / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D011287:Prejudice / Q000523:psychology; D063508:Social Discrimination / Q000523:psychology; D057545:Social Stigma; D013240:Stereotyping