These free downloadable e-books are appropriate for anyone interested in the topic of stigma related to substance use, including individuals and family members, as well as social work and physical or mental or behavioral health care professionals; people working in criminal justice, court, and child welfare systems; and people involved with recovery support.

This fact sheet, developed by the West Virginia Department of Health & Human Resources and Stigma Free WV, describes how people with substance use disorders often do not seek the treatment they need because of the stigma they face - even by their health care providers.

This guide to using non-stigmatizing language when discussing opioid use disorder (OUD) and substance use disorders (SUD) was developed by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services in partnership with the University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center.

The National Institute of Health Heal Initiative "Breaking Through the Wall of Stigma" was developed for healthcare providers to help address stigma.  The videos below take less than two minutes to describe the work of the National Institutes of Health Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative (HEAL), which funds research to help reduce stigma among health care providers toward people with substance use disorders.

This toolkit, developed by the Canadian Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health (CEWH), is designed primarily for substance use and child welfare practitioners, as well as other service providers and health system planners who offer services to, or design services with, pregnant women and new mothers who use substances.

This activity helps participants identify the relationship between shame and opioid use disorder (OUD) and recognize its treatment implications for subsets of people with OUD, such as those who inject heroin and pregnant women and mothers with opioid use disorder.