title: Are some of the stigmas of addictions culturally sanctioned?
abstract: We provide three examples of how addiction stigma is sanctioned: (a) discrimination against people with addictions is often legal; (b) public health communications frequently use stigma to promote prevention; (c) some programmes, such as '12 steps' promote self-stigma. The implications of sanctioned stigma for stigma-change programmes are then discussed.
authors.affiliation: Patrick Corrigan, PsyD, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA; Georg Schomerus, MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Greifswald University, Greifswald, Germany; David Smelson, PsyD, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA corrigan@iit.edu.
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Corrigan
authors.affiliation: Patrick Corrigan, PsyD, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA; Georg Schomerus, MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Greifswald University, Greifswald, Germany; David Smelson, PsyD, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Georg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Schomerus
authors.affiliation: Patrick Corrigan, PsyD, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA; Georg Schomerus, MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Greifswald University, Greifswald, Germany; David Smelson, PsyD, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Smelson
mesh_terms: D003469:Culture; D006801:Humans; D007883:Legislation, Medical; D057545:Social Stigma; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders