Michael M. Copenhaver

TL;DR: Evaluating the HIV Stigma Framework in a sample of 95 people living with HIV recruited from an inner-city clinic in the Bronx, NY suggests that internalized stigma associates significantly with indicators of affective and behavioral health and well-being.

TL;DR: Drug addiction stigma from multiple sources is characterized using qualitative methodology to advance understandings of how drug addiction stigma is experienced among methadone maintenance therapy patients and from whom.

TL;DR: A systematic review as mentioned in this paper found that problematic alcohol consumption should be targeted, preferably using evidence-based behavioral and pharmacological interventions, to indirectly increase the proportion of people living with HIV achieving viral suppression, to achieve treatment as prevention mandates, and to reduce HIV transmission.

TL;DR: Evidence of moderation is revealed in the relationship between internalized HIV stigma and depressive symptoms is moderated by internalized substance use stigma, which suggests stigma associated with multiple socially devalued characteristics should be examined.

TL;DR: The impact of HIV and several cofactors, including substance abuse and mental illness, on cognitive function is discussed in the context of HIV risk behaviors, medication adherence, and risk-reduction interventions.