Reducing Stigma Towards Drug Users

Canada’s public health chief seeks to reduce stigma toward drug users:

“Canadians don’t actually understand where individuals who use drugs are coming from in their background. Nobody chooses to have problematic substance use or substance use disorder,” she said. “And I think there’s too much of a separation in our current context between ‘them’ and ‘us’. I think the general population tends to think this is not going to happen to me, and this is happening somewhere else to a different population. Well, actually, it is all of us being impacted.”

Dr. Theresa Tam, Chief Public Health Officer of Canada’s Public Health Agency

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Public Health Agency of of Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam