Kaitlin Sheerin, Ph.D.

@kaitlinsheerin.bsky.social

Assistant Professor in Brown’s Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior| Clinical Psychologist| Behavioral health & the juvenile legal system | Family-based interventions | Views my own

Respectfully, the gov is mistaken. Nobody is suggesting we eliminate addiction from our lexicon. Sub use disorder is a clinical diagnosis. Addiction is a conversational term that lacks the specificity to be useful clinically. They’re just different. The terms to get rid of are abuse, dirty/clean.

Dave Weigel@daveweigel.bsky.social · last yr.

Been on trail w Andy Beshear, thought this riff on why inclusive language can be unhelpful was interesting

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