Navi Dhesi, Founder of No More Pretending, reflects on stigma, identity and lived experience, and why culturally aware, compassionate support matters.

▶️ Watch Session 3 on demand: zurl.co/PUh1B

#APAconf25 #StigmaKills #NHSAPA

The language we use, assumptions we make, and our attitudes towards people experiencing addiction all affect whether someone feels safe enough to seek help.

This festive season, choose compassion and understanding over judgement and shame.

#StigmaKills zurl.co/aiWKo

This Christmas, #StigmaKills is about challenging judgement and making space for understanding, honesty and support for people experiencing addiction to alcohol.

Learn more about our Stigma Kills Alcohol Harms campaign here: zurl.co/50fhw

During the festive period, messages of togetherness are everywhere. But for people experiencing addiction, stigma can make this time feel even more isolating.

Treating addiction as a moral failing stops people seeking support.

#StigmaKills

Thank you to everyone who joined the #APAconf25 yesterday.

We were pleased to welcome 645 delegates internationally.

Please remember to share your feedback via the form in the post-conference email, your reflections will help shape what we do next.

#APAconf25 #StigmaKills #NHSAPA

A huge thank you to Gilead for sponsoring the NHS APA Conference 2025.

Learn more about Gilead and their sponsorship here: zurl.co/hu1yg

#APAconf25 #StigmaKills #HepCUlater #NHSAPA

Thank you to everyone who joined #apaconf2025 today.

Your insight, lived experience, questions and reflections made this year’s conference powerful, honest and hopeful.

#StigmaKills

Welcome to #APAconf25!

We’re live and ready for a day of reflection, connection and change. We'll be exploring how we can break down stigma and build more inclusive systems of support.

Thanks for being part of it. 💙
#StigmaKills

Stigma Kills | NHS Addictions Provider Alliance Our perceptions, words and actions create stigma. Stigma creates walls, loneliness and poor health, & ultimately stigma kills.

As part of the Growing Edge training we share the #StigmaKills video. The group in Romania 🇷🇴 shared the powerful impact this had on them and we discussed how this is linked to shame, blame, trauma and addiction.

There was a massive thank you to @nhsapa.bsky.social

www.stigmakills.org.uk

Graphic promoting #SeeThePersonHearTheirStory, with text 'Proud supporters of the NHS APA #StigmaKills campaign'

The NHS APA #StigmaKills campaign challenges each and every one of us to reflect on our attitudes and behaviours towards people who experience #addiction. #Stigma needs to stop - but we can’t fight it alone.

Find out more: www.stigmakills.org.uk/

@joiamukherjee.bsky.social asked John about the double stigma—TB and poverty—and how shame drives people underground.

His answer is haunting: a woman who wished for lung cancer over TB, because cancer carries less shame. That’s how deep the stigma goes.
#EverythingIsTuberculosis #StigmaKills

„Wir nehmen doch keinen Junkie mit“ Gleich zweimal wird ein Mann, der nach einer Drogeninjektion medizinische Hilfe sucht, abgewiesen – und stirbt deshalb vermutlich infolge einer unbehandelten Sepsis.

#StigmaKills: „Wir nehmen doch keinen Junkie mit“, sagen die Sanitäter*innen, als sie auf einen Hilferuf hin in der Wohnung von Bernhard* (Namen geändert) ankommen. 2 Tage später hat sich sein Zustand extrem verschlechtert, in der Nacht stirbt er.
Auch an Bernhard* erinnern wir an diesem 21. Juli.

When society still refuses to accept the truth, we're forced to broadcast the news from a random backyard behind a makeshift desk...while Karen calls the cops on us. #PWUD #mentalhealth #PublicHealth #addiction #harmreduction #stigmakills #personfirstlanguage #humanrights

I judge people heavily in respect to how they speak about people that are struggling with homelessness and addiction.

#fuckcapitalism #stigmakills

Weaponizing Patriotism: How Trump’s Executive Order Wages War on the Truth Donald Trump’s recent Executive Order aims to reshape American historical education under the pretense of patriotism, demanding a sanitized, racially biased narrative. It targets discussions …

Trump’s latest EO weaponizes “patriotism” to erase real American history—from slavery to trans visibility.

This is state-sponsored gaslighting in red, white, and blue.

🧵 Dive into the breakdown:
jtwb768.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/w...

#HistoryMatters #StigmaKills #TruthBeforePride

don’t you just wanna squish it? 😇🥰

#sexworkiswork #sexwork #sexworkersrights #sexworkisrealwork #sexworkersrightsarehumanrights #sexworkersunite #supportsexworkers #decrim #endthestigma #decrimnow #decrimsexwork #stigmakills #whorepride #sexworkersmatter #sexworkisvalid #slutpride

Liebe #NinaHagen anlässlich deines 70. Geburtstages gratulieren ich dir und auch der Berufsverband Sexarbeit
@besd.bsky.social
sehr herzlich & möchten dich auf eine wichtige (feministischer) Begebenheit aufmerksam machen:
madamekali.de/offener-Brie...
#StigmaKills #RedetMitStattUeberUns

One of my dear friends credits this treatment with saving her life.
#StigmaKills #StopJudgingOthers

#stigmakills #harmreductionworks

It’s Human Trafficking prevention month, it’s the new year where millions of people continue to be abused and exploited by people they trust and predators.
#stigmakills

Again, when we say #StigmaKills this is exactly what we mean.

Imagine trying to convince someone you deserve justice after being assaulted by someone who thinks you can't consent and that you're "public property"

Screenshot, text reads December 17 began in 2003 in response to the sentencing of murderer Gary Ridgeway, who was convicted of 49 separate murders, although ultimately, he is thought to have taken over 90 lives. When asked about his very specific targeting, he admitted “I picked prostitutes as victims because they were easy to pick up without being noticed. I knew they would not be reported missing right away and might never be reported missing. I picked prostitutes because I thought I could kill as many of them as I wanted without getting caught."

When we say #stigmakills, this is exactly what we mean:
#RightsNotRescue

#D17

Tune in at 2:00 p.m. (GMT+1) for the launch of "Exposed From All Sides," an 11-country study exposing the systemic violence experienced by sex workers at the hands of police and other law enforcement agencies.

#sexwork #policeviolence #StigmaKills #humanrights #EuropeanUnion #migration

Turning Pain Into Action I interviewed parents who have transformed their grief over the loss of their child into powerful action

The crisis continues but there are people fighting for beneficial changes. Here are 3 of those people. #harmreduction #stigmakills #SUD open.substack.com/pub/momsfora...

Eén vd prioriteiten van t Nederlands sekswerkbeleid is t versterken vd maatschappelijke positie & destigmatiseren v sekswerkers "omdat sekswerkers door t stigma op sekswerk n drempel kunnen ervaren om hulp te zoeken als er sprake is van misstanden.”

#StigmaKills

Super excited about my new @pinpenmerger swag. #stigmakills #harmreduction

Over 15,000 overdose deaths in Canada since 2016. Overdoses are preventable. #OverdoseAware #EndOverdose #stigmakills #CareNotCriminalization #DoBetter

@clairezagorski Look what I got today! #stigmakills

SEE BEYOND. SEE THE LIVES. Beyond the stigma, beyond the statistics, there are the stories of people who have died from substance use, overdose, and suicide. Every day, we think about the people we love. There's so much we understand now that we didn't before, and we wish we could talk to them about it.

What four parents would say to their children if they still had the chance. Four powerful stories, four important messages. How a drug crisis is killing the people we love:#seethelives #stigmakills #actionnow @RebeccaSaah @ehyshka @momsstoptheharm

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