"From All Walks of Life": Attending an Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting to Reduce Addiction Stigma Among Medical Students.
Alёna A BalasanovaKelly Rhea MacArthurAlison A DeLizzaPublished in: Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry (2020)
Attending an AA meeting can challenge medical students' stigmatizing attitudes about addiction and increase flexibility of thinking. Younger students' biases may not be as solidified, stressing the importance of early exposure to patients in recovery during medical school. Attending an AA meeting and reflecting on the experience may be one way to decrease addiction stigma among medical students.