Stigma: Overcoming the Effects
I recall someone telling me he could be patient as long as he knew that eventually he’d get what he wanted. Well, it’s easy to be patient then. The trick is to have patience when you don’t know the outcome.
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Author: C. Scott McMillin
Stigma Makes People Feel Inferior
Here we arrive at the core of stigma: the alleged inferiority of the person with alcoholism based on weakness of will. But alcoholic people aren’t weak-willed; if they were, it would be much easier to convince them to seek help.
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Stigma Keeps People From Seeking Help
Alcoholism is stigmatized. So is drug addiction. So is mental illness. And that’s an important obstacle to recovery.
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Making Phone Contacts More Meaningful (Marketing)
In most cases, our only pre-admission contact with prospective patients and families is by telephone.
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Why Don’t Physicians Refer People for Treatment?
A patient said he’d visited a local family clinic three times in the past year for drinking-related problems and the physician never once mentioned that he needed treatment.
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