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“There’s a lot of people who love them, so why call ‘em junkies?”: clinician and patient perspectives about words used to describe people who use drugs

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13722-025-00591-w

Published Online: 2025-09-02

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Authors

Sundaram, Gayathri

Sato, Taisuke

Socrates, Brindet

Wurcel, Alysse
Funding

Funding for this research was provided by:

Harold Williams Medical Student Research Fellowship

National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (UM1TR004398)
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Article History

Received: 21 December 2024

Accepted: 22 July 2025

First Online: 2 September 2025

Declarations

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: All study protocols were separately reviewed and approved by the Tufts University Health Sciences Institutional Review Board.

: The research team emphasized to participants that participation in the study was voluntary, and no personal identifiers would be attached to their responses if published. Oral consent was obtained from every participant in the study.

: The authors declare no competing interests.

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