Rachael Cooper, MFS, has devoted her career to addressing the overdose crisis, including providing direct services to people with substance use disorders, facilitating harm reduction work, providing thought leadership, and working in public policy, both in the U.S. and abroad. At Shatterproof, she is the Senior Director of the National Stigma Initiative, overseeing the multi-level initiative focused on addiction stigma in multiple systems, focusing on the health care system and measuring attitudinal and behavior change related to substance use and addiction. This includes working with a wide range of partner organizations, prioritizing the intersection of healthy equity, substance use, and stigma, centering people with substance use disorders in stigma reduction interventions, and ensuring stigma reduction interventions have the desired outcomes.

 

Understanding Addiction Stigma: Iowa’s 2022 Data and Implications for Stigma Reduction Efforts

Shatterproof, alongside the State of Iowa Department of Health and Human Services, the Center for Survey Research at Indiana University, and Ipsos, conducted a survey measuring levels of addiction stigma in Iowa. This presentation will review the 2022 data, results, and trends, and discuss implications for current and future addiction stigma reduction efforts across the state.

At the conclusion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Summarize, compare, and contrast the types of addiction stigma.
• Describe current levels of addiction stigma across the nation and in Iowa.
• Connect, correlate, and relate to current and future addiction stigma reduction efforts.

 

Presentation Material
Understanding Addiction Stigma: Iowa’s 2022 Data and Implications for Stigma Reduction Efforts