Practitioner Education and Training to Reduce Alcohol-Related Stigma in Health Settings

Anti-stigma training has been found to change discriminatory attitudes with the most successful training found to be peer-led and/or include contact-based training, promotion of positive stories, “myth-busting”, and experiential or interactional learning (e.g. through role playing or use of case studies and examples).

Chapter Recommendation Grade of recommendation
3.1 All healthcare workers should consider undertaking anti-stigma training, specifically those courses that are peer-led or have had substantial peer input into their development, and entail experiential learning B