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Extreme marginalization: addiction and other mental health disorders, stigma, and imprisonment
Author(s) -
Kreek Mary Jeanne
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06152.x
Subject(s) - imprisonment , addiction , psychiatry , mental health , anxiety , psychology , stigma (botany) , social stigma , depression (economics) , clinical psychology , affect (linguistics) , medicine , criminology , communication , family medicine , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , economics , macroeconomics
Major well‐defined medical problems that are, in part, the unfortunate outcome of a negative social environment may include specific addictive diseases and other mental health disorders, in particular the affective disorders of anxiety, depression, social phobia, and posttraumatic stress syndrome. This overview touches on the topic of extreme marginalization associated with addiction and other mental health disorders, along with arrest, imprisonment, and parole. All of these are characterized by a lasting stigma that hauntingly continues to affect each person suffering from any of these problems.