| Line 179: | Line 179: | ||
*'''Smoker: Do not use. In line with our house style, we do not label people. Use 'people who smoke'.''' [emphasis added] | *'''Smoker: Do not use. In line with our house style, we do not label people. Use 'people who smoke'.''' [emphasis added] | ||
*Don't label people with their condition: we would never say 'epileptics', 'schizophrenics', 'smokers', 'drug-takers'. Use the following as a guide: 'people with epilepsy', 'people with schizophrenia', 'people who smoke', 'people who take drugs'. | *Don't label people with their condition: we would never say 'epileptics', 'schizophrenics', 'smokers', 'drug-takers'. Use the following as a guide: 'people with epilepsy', 'people with schizophrenia', 'people who smoke', 'people who take drugs'. | ||
===2014: [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6042508/ Confronting Inadvertent Stigma and Pejorative Language in Addiction Scholarship: A Recognition and Response]=== | |||
*"For these reasons, the Editorial Team of ''Substance Abuse'' seeks to formally operationalize respect for personhood in our mission, our public relations, and our instructions to authors. To our knowledge, few journals have explicitly taken this step,7–12 and we are the first scientific addiction journal to do so. Our overarching call is threefold. First, we are asking authors to carefully and intentionally consider the language they use to describe alcohol and other drug use and disorders, the individuals affected by these conditions, and their related behaviors, comorbidities, treatment, and recovery..." | |||
===2014: [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4634635/ Lung Cancer Stigma, Anxiety, Depression and Quality of Life]=== | ===2014: [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4634635/ Lung Cancer Stigma, Anxiety, Depression and Quality of Life]=== | ||
edits