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Opinion: Removing the stigma of opioid addiction is a corporate responsibility

Corporations and their social responsibility programs need to embrace addiction as a human problem and commit to reducing the stigma associated with it.
As the number of opioid-related overdoses and deaths continues to climb, corporate social responsibility programs should confront the issue.

Thirty years ago, when I first started in public relations, corporate social responsibility programs were mainly company-funded foundations that donated money to various charities and organizations. There wasn’t necessarily a strategy behind these efforts — it was just understood that charity was part of doing business.

While these programs have become incredibly sophisticated — , for example, engages the social consciousness of today’s customers and their willingness

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