Stigma, social inequality and alcohol and drug use

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Alcohol myopia: Its prized and dangerous effects.

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Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness

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On Stigma and Its Consequences: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study of Men with Dual Diagnoses of Mental Illness and Substance Abuse

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Stigma, shame, and blame experienced by patients with lung cancer: qualitative study

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Diseases of the will : alcohol and the dilemmas of freedom

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The social side of sanctions: Personal and social norms as moderators of deterrence.

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Problem Drinking among American Men.

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Positive Stigma: Examining Resilience and Empowerment in Overcoming Stigma

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Problem Drinking among American Men.

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Alcoholism Treatment in Transition

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Meat Is Good to Taboo: Dietary Proscriptions as a Product of the Interaction of Psychological Mechanisms and Social Processes

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Closed Ranks

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Intoxication and bad behaviour: understanding cultural differences in the link

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Alcohol‐related mortality as a function of socio‐economic status

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Food is fundamental, fun, frightening, and far-reaching

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Stigmatizing Smokers: Public Sentiment Toward Cigarette Smoking and Its Relationship to Smoking Behaviors

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Effects of the characteristics of neighbourhoods and the characteristics of people on cause specific mortality: a register based follow up study of 252 000 men

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Closed Ranks: An Experiment in Mental Health Education

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Disability and culture : universalism and diversity

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Situational norms for drinking and drunkenness: trends in the US adult population, 1979-1990.

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cannabis users' informal rules for managing stigma and risk

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Oxford Textbook of Public Health

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Demographic Characteristics and the Frequency of Heavy Drinking as Predictors of Self‐reported Drinking Problems

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Poverty, social exclusion and health in Portugal

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Contested Meanings: The Construction of Alcohol Problems.

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On the effective use of stigma as a crime-deterrent

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Contested meanings: the construction of alcohol problems

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The risk of harm to oneself from drinking, Canada 1989

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Situational norms for drinking and drunkenness: trends in the US adult population, 1979–1990

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A Moral Vision of Addiction: How People's Values Determine Whether They Become and Remain Addicts

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Punishment, Deterrence and Social Control: The Paradox of Punishment in Minority Communities

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Socio-demographic predictors of self-rated health in the Republic of Ireland: findings from the National Survey on Lifestyle, Attitudes and Nutrition, SLAN

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Sociological Aspects of the Disease Concept of Alcoholism

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Normative Perspectives on Alcohol Use and Problems

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The moral relevance of personal characteristics in setting health care priorities

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Dead on arrival

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Writing on drugs

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Crystal Methamphetamine use among Gay Men in Sydney

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Cross-cultural views on stigma, valuation, parity, and societal values towards disability

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Alcohol, drugs and stigma.

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STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE TO STIGMATIZATION AMONG WHITE MIDDLE-CLASS SINGLES

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The changes in the social class distribution of moderate and high alcohol consumption and of alcohol-related disabilities over time in Stockholm County and in Sweden

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III. ALCOHOL, DRUGS AND STIGMA

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Determinants of suggestions for alcohol treatment

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The Other Half: Wives of Alcoholics and Their Social-Psychological Situation

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Drunk drivers in the courts: Legal and extra-legal factors affecting pleas and sentences

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Alcohol and European transformation.

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The changes in the social class distribution of moderate and high alcohol consumption and of alcohol-related disabilities over time in Stockholm County and in Sweden

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The other half: wives of alcoholics and their social-psychological situation

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Stigma and Social Control

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Labelling theory's explanation of mental illness: An update of recent evidence

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Alcoholism Prevention and Reality

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Ascertaining police bias in arrests for drunken driving.

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Treatment of Drug Addiction in Traumatised Refugees

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Drug Use within the Finnish Club Culture as Marks of Distinction

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