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Recovery and stigma

Posted on October 01, 2008

SAMHSA did a survey of attitudes toward addiction and recovery. The press release paints a very optimistic picture, but the full report tells me that we have a long way to go.30% of respondents said they'd think less of a friend with a drug problem and 18% said they'd think less of a friend in recovery. 66% said that they would be comfortable being friends with someone in recovery, 63% would be comfortable working with someone in recovery and 57% would be comfortable living next door to someone in recovery.I'm not sure how to feel about this, but I suspect we're supposed to be thrilled. I don'...

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