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EDITORIAL article

Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Addictive Disorders
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1481215
This article is part of the Research Topic Breaking the Mental Health Stigma for People with Substance Use Disorders View all 6 articles

Editorial: Breaking the mental health stigma for people with substance use disorders

Provisionally accepted
Richard Appiah Richard Appiah 1,2,3*Ottar Ness Ottar Ness 4Kofi E. Boakye Kofi E. Boakye 5,6
  • 1 Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England, United Kingdom
  • 2 University of Ghana, Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana
  • 3 University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
  • 4 Norwegian University of Science and Technology Museum, Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway
  • 5 University of Leicester, Leicester, East Midlands, United Kingdom
  • 6 University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

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    Keywords: substance use disorder, stigma, mental health stigma, substance use disorder treatment and prevention, substance use disorder and mental health

    Received: 15 Aug 2024; Accepted: 10 Sep 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Appiah, Ness and Boakye. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Richard Appiah, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, North East England, United Kingdom

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