Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:Drug Monkey covers a fascinating study finding that mental health workers judge patients differently depending on whether they're described as being a 'substance abuser' or as having 'a substance use disorder'. We covered a similar study on personality disorder previously.To the bunkers! The robots are coming but are we ready for them? asks Si
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January 16, 2010
Is it a substance use disorder or is he a substance abuser?
This is awesome. I've been waiting for the paper to show up ever since I saw the poster presentation at a meeting last year. Or maybe I just saw a related type of poster because I seem to recall the analysis being particularly critical of general medical doctors? At any rate, this is a pretty important finding because it speaks to the stigma that surrounds certain types of medical problems. This
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