Social Stigma and Drug Use

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