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Posted 10/2/2024 (updated 2/4/2025)
The RCORP-TA team has developed the RCORP "Be There" Anti-Stigma Media Toolkit using input by grantees to use with your local media outlets. Use these materials to help address the ongoing need for compassion towards those facing substance and opioid use …
Posted 2/21/2023 (updated 2/4/2025)
The report provides key findings from the study assessing substance use and recovery stigma by healthcare workers, compared to non-healthcare workers. The stigma that is perceived by people who use drugs or are in recovery (PWUD/IR) was found to be a …
Posted 7/6/2022 (updated 2/4/2025)
This presentation offers new strategies to help unhoused persons. Dr. Richardson reviews current statistics, identifies root causes, offers a description of life without a home, highlights persons with lived experience, and discusses new strategies that …
Posted 11/17/2021 (updated 2/4/2025)
The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine defines stigma as a range of negative attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that are associated with certain conditions such as addiction. Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug …
Posted 3/10/2021 (updated 2/4/2025)
This webinar provided the foundational information necessary to plan and implement effective anti-stigma strategies. We defined stigma and internalized stigma and their impact on vulnerable populations—drug policy, public perception, healthcare access. We …
Posted 1/20/2021 (updated 2/4/2025)
People who use drugs (PWUD) in the U.S. experience disproportionate adverse health outcomes and mortality as compared with the population as a whole (Lake & Kennedy, 2016; Reisinger, Pratt, Shoenborn, & Druss, 2017). Similar health outcomes have been …
Posted 7/28/2021 (updated 2/4/2025)
Public health professionals refer to “hard to reach populations” as those who are not likely to access traditional health care and social services on their own due to various barriers that may include mental illness, unstable housing, lack of …
Posted 6/2/2020 (updated 2/4/2025)
We know from RCORP grantees, first responders, hospitals, people who use drugs, the media and other allies that many communities are seeing spikes in overdose (OD) events and deaths since the onset of Coronavirus (COVID-19). Sometimes these deaths come at …
Posted 8/6/2024 (updated 8/15/2024)
This webinar covered the various forms of stigma affecting individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs), particularly in rural settings. We will explore common stigmatizing beliefs about opioid use disorder (OUD) and medications for opioid use disorder …
Posted 8/1/2024
This campaign from the University of Rochester (UR) Recovery Center of Excellence developed an awareness campaign to address stigmatizing beliefs around substance use disorder (SUD) that can pose a barrier to care in rural communities. The resource …