Trends in stigmatizing language about addiction: A longitudinal analysis of multiple public communication channels

McLaren, Nilay; Jones, Christopher M.; Noonan, Rita; Idaikkadar, Nimi; Sumner, Steven A.

doi:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2023.109807

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Trends in stigmatizing language about addiction: A longitudinal analysis of multiple public communication channels

4 01 2023
By McLaren, Nilay ; Jones, Christopher M. ; Noonan, Rita ; ...
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2023.109807
Source: Drug Alcohol Depend. 245:109807

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Drug Alcohol Depend
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McLaren, Nilay ; Jones, Christopher M. ; Noonan, Rita ; Idaikkadar, Nimi ; Sumner, Steven A.

McLaren, Nilay ; Jones, Christopher M. ; Noonan, Rita ; Idaikkadar, Nimi ; Sumner, Steven A. Less -
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Introduction:

Stigma associated with substance use and addiction is a major barrier to overdose prevention. Although stigma reduction is a key goal of federal strategies to prevent overdose, there is limited data to assess progress made in reducing use of stigmatizing language about addiction.

Methods:

Using language guidelines published by the federal National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), we examined trends in use of stigmatizing terms about addiction across four popular public communication modalities: news articles, blogs, Twitter, and Reddit. We calculate percent changes in the rates of articles/posts using stigmatizing terms over a five-year period (2017–2021) by fitting a linear trendline and assess statistically significant trends using the Mann-Kendall test.

Results:

The rate of articles containing stigmatizing language decreased over the past five years for news articles (–68.2 %, p < 0.001) and blogs (–33.6 %, p < 0.001). Among social media platforms, the rate of posts using stigmatizing language increased (Twitter [43.5 %, p = 0.01]) or remained stable (Reddit [3.1 %, p = 0.29]). In absolute terms, news articles had the highest rate of articles containing stigmatizing terms over the five-year period (324.9 articles per million) compared to 132.3, 18.3, and 138.6 posts per million for blogs, Twitter, and Reddit, respectively.

Conclusions:

Use of stigmatizing language about addiction appears to have decreased across more traditional, longer-format communication modalities such as news articles. Additional work is needed to reduce use of stigmatizing language on social media.
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Behavior, Addictive Communication Drug Overdose Humans Language Social Media Social Stigma Substance-Related Disorders
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Addiction News Online Social Media Stigma
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Drug Alcohol Depend. 245:109807
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36801706
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PMC10901231
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Journal Article
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CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
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245
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CDC Public Access
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