Social Stigma and Drug Use

Gender Perspectives, Family Contexts and Intersections
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-94812-1
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 574 g

This book presents interdisciplinary studies that analyze how social stigma affects people who use psychoactive substances. Bringing together contributions by researchers from different fields such as biology, social sciences, nursing, medicine, dentistry, psychology and social work, it adopts an intersectional perspective to show how the categories of gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity, territory, and social class are essential to understand the processes of stigmatization of specific groups of users of alcohol and other drugs.

Written by members of the Ibero-Latin American Network on Stigma and Drug Use, chapters in this volume explore, in a contextual and intersectional way, how social stigma impacts drug user’s lives, drawing special attention to issues of gender and family contexts. Authors discuss, from a gender perspective, how stigma impacts not only the lives of people who use drugs, but also the lives of their relatives, partners and caregivers, who are often blamed for the user’s condition and as a consequence face prejudice, discrimination and social isolation.

will be of interest to both researchers and professionals from different fields who work with drug users, such as psychologists; psychiatrists; nurses; social workers and public health researchers and professionals. It will also be a valuable resource for policy makers and activists interested in developing and fighting for social and health policies that can provide care and at the same time respect the human rights of drug users.  

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mota Ronzani, Telmo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Gesundheitspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section 1: Social Stigma and Use of Psychoactive Substances.- 1.Stigma and public health: Impact on addiction prevention and treatment in Latin America and Spain.- 2.Poverty, gender, drug use and stigma. An intersectional discussion based on homeless people.- 3.Stigma in vulnerable drug-using populations: migrants and people deprived of liberty.- 4.Stigma and masked diagnosis in people with mental disorders and substance addiction.- 5.Stigma and behavioral addictions: gambling and gaming.- 6.Online intervention to reduce stigma in health personnel working in the field of addiction in Mexico.- 6.Stigma, discrimination and substance use. An intersectional approach.- 7.Youth experience and stigma in crack users of Mexico City.- Section 2: Social Stigma and Gender.- 8.Stigma, aesthetics and morality: drug use, gender and social condition.- 9.Integrative review on interventions aimed at reducing courtesy stigma among family members.-10.Stigma, Prejudice and the Media: impacts on the care of family members of people who use drugs.- 11.An analysis of the literature on substance use by LGBT youth in Brazil: debating stigma and prejudice.- 12.The stigma of living with HIV infection.- 13.Those who remain: the life story of women who attend support groups for family members with drug problems.- Section 3: Drug Use and Gender Perspective.- 14.Domestic violence, substance use and gender.- 15.Barriers to accessibility to treatment from a gender perspective.- 16.The role of the caregiver in the addiction treatment process.- 17.Stigma, aesthetics and morals: drug use, gender and social status.- 18.Impact of substance use, stigma and coping styles on the mental health of Mexican families.- 19.Stigma towards women who consume alcohol in a rural indigenous community in central Mexico.

Über Autor(innen)

Telmo Mota Ronzani is Full Professor in the Department of Psychology at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Brazil, and Vice-Rector of the same institution. He holds a BA in Psychology from UFJF, a Master's Degree in Social Psychology from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil; and a PhD in Health Sciences from the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp), Brazil. He has also conducted post-doctoral studies at the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, and completed a post-doctoral internship at the University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC) in the area of alcohol and other drugs. Dr. Ronzani is a member of the International Scientific Network of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC); a researcher at the Research, Intervention and Evaluation Center on Alcohol and Other Drugs (CREPEIA) at UFJF and was Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction (Springer). He holds a research productivity grant 1C from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).