Talk:Discrimination against drug addicts

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This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Uronnie0, Smith034, ZuriShaw. Peer reviewers: Ksande15.

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Addicts
can you please refer to drug users as people who use drugs rather than discriminating against them by calling them addicts, while some drug users may chose to label themselves as addicts many do not and this does not exclude them from discrimination. I can recommend 'The Biology of Desire by Marc Lewis (addiction is not a disease) for a good overview of the negative impact of the disease model on drug users and their positive aspirations. There is a free youtube presentation of his key points that anyone can access. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.188.17.115 (talk) 11:14, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Peer Review for Cgolden97's article
Very interesting and meaningful article to commit to :D -As another Wiki editor pointed out perhaps changing the term "addicts" to a less harsh or stereotypical term would be an important edit to make -Great connection to human rights in intro -(Just a suggestions) You could talk about how the "Opioid Epidemic is being represented to the public versus the "Crack Cocaine Epidemic" for a heftier Basic Information or Historical aspect to the article or the media's role in contributing to the stereotyping and discrimination of people who use drugs+I also suspect there are many sources out there that can greater inform the Drugs and HIV Infection section Global Impact section could include links to terms that have been mentioned/written about on Wikipedia -Cite the places where you've paraphrased or included number inside its sentence or paragraph just incase. We don't want any plagiarism scares. -Great sources, maybe mention where your statistics or research comes from in the paragraphs -Either way learned a lot from this article

NPOV
This article currently references a number of blogs and rehabilitation clinic marketing pages, and represents many drug policy non-profit positions as facts. The page has a perceivable bias towards destigmatization of all drug use, including what has traditionally been called abuse, and goes beyond merely describing the discrimination phenomenon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 52.119.117.53 (talk) 08:00, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I agree. Would prefer it be renamed as Discrimination against people with a drug addiction or Discrimination against people with a substance use disorder. Amousey (talk) 22:51, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

Confused mix of terminology and US centric
The page is about "addicts" - people with a substance use disorder (SUD). But after the first paragraph it's changed to talking about what seems to be non-problematic drug use. While both groups as discriminated against, the page is about "addicts". The image is inappropriate given the topic - this could well be a marijuana legalisation protest. Perscription, and legal vs illegal drugs isn't mentioned. Having two US based addiction websites attempt to speak for drug users is not reliable and US centric. Also implies all drug users (all) are criminal. Amousey (talk) 19:32, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Collaboration Effort
We are working as a team. We are working on improving this article with an emphasis are on "well researched," "neutral point of view," and "length," from Wikipedia's Feature article criteria.

Any advice — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:448:4280:2A7:FD6E:6FE9:E085:BACD (talk) 16:27, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

Consensus Building Attempt/
I am currently working in a small group to improve this article. Our main focus would be the articles length, it being well-researched and neutral. I agree with previous comments here, and think that the 'Drugs and HIV' section could be more detailed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by WithoutTranslation (talk • contribs) 05:12, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

Interested in Adding
Greetings! I wanted to express my interest in expanding the "Drugs and HIV" section to address other nations like India and Vietnam and extending the article to address this topic's intersectionality with racism and classism. This along with a couple of other revision ideas are briefly outlined on my user page, feel free to drop by at Asmaley! Asmaley (talk) 02:53, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Proposed changes
Hi all! I have drafted my proposed plan for changes more in-depth on my user page. Furthermore, I have started conducted these edits in my sandbox. Feel free to check either out and leave some feedback! Asmaley (talk) 15:56, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

Discrimination Against Drug Addicts improvements
Some of the wording choices used in this article are not neutral and should be changed. This is an important topic and it could be improved if it didn't have biased words or sentences. Ilovecats21 (talk) 23:51, 30 October 2021 (UTC) ilovecats21

suggest for deletion
page is not backed by citations

includes large amount of opinion

see previous talks for other issues

seems to largely be a consensus already Politically Minded Stoner (talk) 01:16, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

most of the article isn't even relevant Politically Minded Stoner (talk) 01:30, 31 December 2021 (UTC)