Date: Saturday, August 10

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

Session 075: Understanding Stigma and Responses to Drug Use
Room: Hemon

Sponsor: Drinking and Drugs

Organizers: Juliette Roddy, Northern Arizona University
Dina Perrone, California State University, Long Beach
David Frank, New York University

Presider &

Discussant: Alexander S. Bennett, New York University

Description: 

Understanding how stigma impacts the treatment of people who use drugs.

Papers:

“Substance Use, Stigma, and Using Research to Inform Community Response,” Simon Purdy, SUNY Delhi

“‘Harm Reduction Policies Are Great.… but Those Drug Users Are Always Trying to Get One over on You’: History, Structural Stigma and Violence, and the Limits of Harm Reduction Expansion,” Alexander S. Bennett, New York University

“Using Mobile Technology to Identify and Respond to Critical Gaps in Harm Reduction Knowledge and Access to Resources among PWID: Results of a Pilot Study,” Honoria Guarino, CUNY School of Public Health

“Crime and Policing around Cannabis Dispensaries in Seattle,” Joshua Chanin and Burrel Vann, San Diego State University

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