LANGUAGE MATTERS

If you want to care for something you call it a “flower”. If you want to kill it you call it a “weed”.

Please, download our LANGUAGE OF RECOVERY information below: Share this kinder language with your healthcare provider, minister, on social media–and definitely use it yourself. You can help reduce the stigma of addiction. Stigma is the reason why 93.7 percent of adolescents, 92.3 percent of young adults, and 87.7 percent of adults aged 26 or older who needed treatment did not receive treatment at a specialty facility in the past year. Too many people carry unnecessary shame as the stigma kills more and more of our brothers and sisters every day. We must wage war on the stigma. Get the word out. We are not bad people. We have a mental/physical/spiritual disorder and we want to recover. Download our LANGUAGE OF RECOVERY information below: 

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