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Despite an increase in access to medications for opioid use disorder, less than 20% of individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) receive...

Words matter. In the scientific arena, the routine vocabulary of health care professionals and researchers frames illness and shapes...

Discrimination and stigmatization of patients who use psychoactive drugs or who have addiction is common in health care.1–4 Using...

This article provides a present-day reflection, focusing mainly on Brazil, of terms used by society at large (and frequently by health...

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Addiction as a diagnosable and treatable illness is recent, though the phenomenon of people misusing substances is not.  For example, in...

This is the second edition of APA’s Inclusive Language Guide. By updating its 2021 edition, the American Psychological Association (APA)...