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Thought-provoking blog by Bill White and Tom Hill on stigma reduction "By hiding our recovery we have sustained the most harmful myth about addiction disease–that it is hopeless. And without the example of recovering people it is easy for the public to continue to think that victims of addiction disease are moral degenerates–that those who recover are the morally enlightened exceptions….We are the lucky ones, the ones who got well. And it is our responsibility to change the terms of the debate for the sake of those who still suffer. " - Senator Harold Hughes (1922-1996) What are you doing personally to end the stigma?



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