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“Junkie” Caricatures Make Us All More Vulnerable to Addiction

Shattered Stigma –

March 5, 2019 – “It’s definitely an interesting psychological process that evolves over time in terms of people’s sense of how [their] drug use relates to their identity or sense of self,” says Kimberly Sue, the medical director of the Harm Reduction Coalition. “People really associate injecting with crossing some kind of moral line.”I could chug down as much cough syrup and liquor as I wanted, slip LSD tabs under my tongue every day for a month, and chase that month with weeks and weeks of ‘shrooming—and still I was, in my mind, better than the “junkies.”

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