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• When you talk about addiction and substance use, what words, terms, or phrases do you use that are stigmatizing and reflect a negative bias?
• What are your personal beliefs about why people become addicted or use substances?
• Are you more accepting of certain types of addictions more than others (such as addiction to illicit substances versus addiction to “legal” or prescribed substances)? Why?
• Do you believe that some addictions are easier to recover from than others? Why?
• Do you believe some people are beyond help?
• Do you believe that certain substance use treatment approaches are better than others? What are your thoughts on abstinence-based approaches versus medication-assisted treatment?
• Is using medication-assisted treatment (such as Suboxone or methadone) essentially replacing one drug with another?
• What are your beliefs about recovery and how that looks (such as behaviors, actions, and so on)?