Frequent experience of discrimination among people who inject drugs: Links with health and wellbeing

Injecting drug use is the most stigmatised among all routes of illicit drug administration (Ahern et al., 2007), as it is seen as the ultimate breach of social conventions in contemporary society (Treloar et al., 2013; Manderson, 1995). Stigma, as a sign of low moral status (Goffman, 1986), is followed by discrimination (Sartorius, 2006), which is defined as actions from a dominant group or group member that aim to harm other individuals that are part of less dominant groups (Huddy et al., 2013).
Source: Drug and Alcohol Dependence - Category: Addiction Authors: Tags: Full length article Source Type: research