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  Stigma and Addiction Image What is stigma? Stigma is a discrimination against an identifiable group of people, a place, or a nation. Stigma about people with SUD might include inaccurate or unfounded thoughts like they are dangerous, incapable of managing treatment, or at fault for their condition. Where does stigma come from? For people with an SUD, stigma may stem from antiquated and inaccurate beliefs that addiction is a moral failing, instead of what we know it to be—a chronic, treatable disease from which patients can recover and continue to lead healthy lives. How does stigma affect people with SUD? Feeling stigmatized can reduce the willingness of individuals with SUD to seek treatment. 1,2 Stigmatizing views of people with SUD are common; this stereotyping can lead others to feel pity, fear, anger, and a desire for social distance from people with an SUD. 2 Stigmatizing language can negatively influence health care provider perceptions of people with SUD, which can i...

 Medication: If  medications became the main form of addiction treatment, the pharmaceutical industry would benefit — an outrageous outcome, critics of the approach believe, given the industry’s role in creating the opioid epidemic.  But medication-focused treatment would also threaten residential programs (for-profit companies). They charge an average of $15,000, and up to $26,000, for a monthlong stay, though many of its patients have private insurance that covers most of the cost Holistic Narratives :  “If we went purely science-based, nobody would come to treatment because it would be boring,” Mr. Perez said. the methadone treatment program is one of numerous changes Connecticut has made to help inmates successfully re-enter society.  But for most jails and prisons, such programs are out of the question.  Much of the criminal justice system still takes a punitive approach to addiction.  Many who work in corrections believe, incorrectly, that treatm...

  How to Cure Addiction with Alternative Medicines Ayahuasca Essential oils Eastern practices (Accupuncture, Yoga, Tai Chi, etc.) Massage and Body Therapies (Massage and sweats, etc. ) Energy work (crystals, reiki, etc.) Treatment centers offering holistic therapy use exercise, meditation, and nutrition to help people overcome their addiction. Holistic therapies may include: Yoga Tai chi Guided meditation Acupuncture Essential Oils Massage therapy Herbal Medicine Spiritual therapy Routine exercise Proper nutrition Counseling Art therapy Holistic Therapy For Addiction Treatment Holistic therapy programs feature personalized, non-medical methods of addiction recovery. Holistic therapists treat physical and mental addiction symptoms as well as emotional and nutritional imbalances . Lack of sleep, poor diet, and emotional stress are all potential obstacles holistic therapy might help a recovering addict treat. Holistic therapy plans are flexible and gentle. Some of the main objectives...

Overdose prevention sites or supervised consumption facilities are a public health, harm reduction strategy to address the health needs of persons who use drugs (PWUD).  These are sites where people can consume their own substances in a safe environment within the presence of harm reduction staff, medical supervision, and peer workers.  Narratives are a co-creation of knowledge by collecting the participants’ stories using semi-structured interviews and photographs taken by them.  all types of changes including behaviors, relationships, interactions with others, feelings, and perceptions of self and others.  deepen our understanding of the experiences of individuals who use such sites and the role of these sites in the community. Research has shown that the primary users of supervised injection services are those who are most marginalized  effective at meeting their public health objectives of mitigating overdose-related mortality; reducing substance-related ris...

  individualist and medicalizing discourses on psychedelics: they erase the traditions from which these substances were appropriated, rendering native traditions to romantic stereotypes of noble savages,  they cause us to miss important lessons that could potentially transform the way we do science .  Anthropologists also challenge the universality of psychedelic experiences and caution that we might be imposing western concepts on Indigenous traditions. ( This too contributes to the erasure of Indigenous shamanisms and the accompanying ontologies and epistemologies).  psychedelics create powerful religious feelings in people cross-culturally is considered unlikely to be coincidental.   psychedelics do not merely cause temporary “psychoses” or “mere hallucinations” in people but instead work with existing, adaptive mechanisms in the brain for generating ASCs that can be used constructively.  Today, the term “entheogen” – meaning “bringing forth the divine w...