Trends in the dehumanization of people who use drugs in American news articles from 1986 to 2020
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This presentation leveraged big data to study dehumanizing language throughough the War on Drugs to today. We discovered trends that can help inform humanization strategies specific to each substance to which stereotypes are attributed.
Recommended citation: Habib D, Curtis B, Giorgi S, Bellew D. Trends in the dehumanization of people who use drugs in American news articles from 1986 to 2020. Roundtable presentation at: American Public Health Association Annual Meeting; November 9, 2022; Boston, MA, USA.
