With Dr. John Kelly, Dr. Earnshaw co-authored a SBM position calling on Congress to remove the term “abuse” from the National Institutes of Health and related federal administrations pertaining to addiction, replacing it with non-stigmatizing terminology.

Read the position statement here: https://www.sbm.org/UserFiles/image/abuse-language-brief20_FINAL.pdf
Download the infographic here: https://www.sbm.org/UserFiles/image/AbuseLanguage-infographic.png

Sign the petition to support this policy change: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/d7c254cdd7791e198aac6f5b5c2f6f76d5aff32d?hash=53f1c0450d14628ed5c74918d0ffa7d4