The Stigma of Addiction: An Essential Guide

226 Pages·2019·2.26 MB·English

by  Jonathan D. Avery

Jonathan D. Avery
Joseph J. Avery Editors
The Stigma of Addiction
An Essential Guide
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The Stigma of Addiction
Jonathan D. Avery • Joseph J. Avery
Editors
The Stigma of Addiction
An Essential Guide
Editors
Jonathan D. Avery Joseph J. Avery
Department of Psychiatry Department of Psychology
Weill Cornell Medical College Princeton University
New York, NY Princeton, NJ
USA USA
ISBN 978-3-030-02579-3 ISBN 978-3-030-02580-9 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02580-9
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To Oliver Avery, Alexander Bodini, Zoe Kellner,
and Gian Marco Moratti. We love you, and we
miss you.
Dr. Jonathan Avery would like to thank
Robin Kellner Sicher and John Sicher for their
support of his research on stigma.
Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Jonathan D. Avery and Joseph J. Avery
2 Self-Stigma and Addiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Steve Matthews
3 “Bad Parents,” “Codependents,” and
Other Stigmatizing Myths About Substance
Use Disorder in the Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Carrie Wilkens and Jeffrey Foote
4 The Stigma of Addiction in Romantic
Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Lindsey M. Rodriguez and Lauren Prestwood
5 The Language of Stigma and Addiction . . . . . . . . . . 71
Sarah E. Wakeman
6 The Stigma of Addiction in the Medical
Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Jonathan D. Avery
7 Stigma and Addiction Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Linda Richter, Lindsey Vuolo,
and Mithra S. Salmassi
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8 Race, Stigma, and Addiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Sonia Mendoza, Alexandrea E. Hatcher,
and Helena Hansen
9 Addiction Stigma in the US Legal System . . . . . . . 153
Joseph J. Avery
10 The Stigma of Addiction in the Workplace . . . . . . . 167
Ann Roche, Victoria Kostadinov, and Ken Pidd
11 Stigma of Addiction in the Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Emma E. McGinty, Alene Kennedy-Hendricks,
and Colleen L. Barry
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Contributors
Jonathan  D.  Avery, MD Department of Psychiatry,
Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA
Joseph  J.  Avery, JD, MA Department of Psychology,
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Colleen L. Barry, PhD, MPP Department of Health Policy
and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Jeffrey Foote, PhD The Center for Motivation and Change,
New York, NY, USA
Helena  Hansen, MD, PhD New York University,
Departments of Anthropology and Psychiatry, New York,
NY, USA
Alexandrea  E.  Hatcher, LMSW Drug Policy Alliance,
New York, NY, USA
Alene  Kennedy-Hendricks, PhD Department of Health
Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School
of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Victoria Kostadinov, MPsych National Centre for Education
and Training on Addiction (NCETA), Flinders University,
Adelaide, SA, Australia
Steve  Matthews Plunkett Centre for Ethics, St Vincent’s
Hospital and Australian Catholic University, Darlinghurst,
NSW, Australia
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x Contributors
Emma E. McGinty, PhD, MS Department of Health Policy
and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Sonia  Mendoza, MA Mailman School of Public Health,
Sociomedical Sciences Department, Columbia University,
New York, NY, USA
New York University, Departments of Anthropology and
Psychiatry, New York, NY, USA
Ken Pidd National Centre for Education and Training on
Addiction (NCETA), Flinders University, Adelaide, SA,
Australia
Lauren  Prestwood, MA Department of Psychology,
University of South Florida St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg,
FL, USA
Linda  Richter, PhD Center on Addiction, New York,
NY, USA
Ann Roche National Centre for Education and Training on
Addiction (NCETA), Flinders University, Adelaide, SA,
Australia
Lindsey  M.  Rodriguez, PhD Department of Psychology,
University of South Florida St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, FL,
USA
Mithra S. Salmassi College of the Holy Cross, Worcester,
MA, USA
Lindsey Vuolo, JD, MPH Center on Addiction, New York,
NY, USA
Sarah E. Wakeman, MD Massachusetts General Hospital
Substance Use Disorders Initiative, Boston, MA, USA
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Carrie Wilkens, PhD The Center for Motivation and Change,
New York, NY, USA
Chapter 1
Introduction
Jonathan D. Avery and Joseph J. Avery
The Stigma of Addiction: An Essential Guide is one of the
only books that focuses on stigma directed toward those with
substance use disorders (SUDs). This may come as a surprise
given addiction’s ubiquitous impact and its prominence in the
national dialogue. Yet, while scholars have long discussed
stigma pertaining to mental illness, addiction, which now is
recognized as a disorder and falls within the ambit of mental
illness, is just beginning to receive similar scholarly treatment.
Our primary goal in this book is to collect leading scholarly
thought, providing both the clinician and the nonexpert with
a comprehensive understanding of the different aspects of
addiction stigma and the different arenas in which it arises.
What is stigma? In the Journal of Mental Health, Sonya
Lipczynska described how, after a goalkeeper named Andy
Goram was diagnosed with mild schizophrenia, English soc-
cer fans would taunt him by yelling, “Two Andy Gorams,
there’s only two Andy Gorams…” [4]. This is but one of
J. D. Avery (*)
Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College,
New York, NY, USA
e-mail: [email protected]
J. J. Avery
Department of Psychology, Princeton University,
Princeton, NJ, USA
e-mail: [email protected]
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