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Monday, November 16, 2009

Long-term strategies to reduce the stigma attached to addiction, treatment, and recovery within the City of Philadelphia


The purpose of this document is to:

1) review the historical and scientific research on the social/professional stigma related to addiction, with a particular focus on the stigma experienced by people in medication-assisted treatment and long-term medication-assisted recovery, and

2) outline strategies that could be used by the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Mental Retardation Services and its many community partners to reduce addiction/recovery-related stigma.

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