Exploring Scottish addiction services: provider-based stigma, addiction aetiology beliefs, treatment bias, and burnout among addiction treatment providers

Troup, Lucy (2026) Exploring Scottish addiction services: provider-based stigma, addiction aetiology beliefs, treatment bias, and burnout among addiction treatment providers. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 21 (3).

Abstract

Drug related deaths continue to increase in Scotland. Many barriers to addiction treatment exist and are often related to poor provider-client relationships possibly caused by stigma, burnout and differentiating beliefs and attitudes among addiction treatment providers. This study investigated the prevalence of provider-based stigma (PBS) including four stigma variants (dangerousness, blame, social distance, fatalism) and its relationship to burnout, job satisfaction, attitudes towards addiction treatment approaches, and beliefs regarding addiction aetiology in a sample of addiction treatment providers.

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