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Choose to Use Your Voice – Reducing Stigma Toward People Who Use Substances

Jes is a community harm reduction support navigator and peer support worker, who has been helping people with lived and living experience of opioid use for over 25 years. Melinda is a primary care nurse practitioner with years of experience supporting people who use substances. In this video, Jes and Melinda explore the stigma these people often meet when accessing health services, and what direct health service providers can do to reduce it and improve the quality of care they receive.

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