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Our Style Guides

Our one-page resources helps quickly and clearly walk you through ethical reporting on addiction, including an easy-to-follow checklist that can help you shape your stories from pitch to publication.

Trauma-Informed and Empathy-Based Reporting

This resource features best practices and recommendations for interacting with sources through a trauma-informed, empathy-based approach, including an easy-to-follow checklist, detailed communication guides and considerations for examining one’s personal bias.

Digital Security Toolkit

This resource helps journalists consider how to effectively protect themselves and their sources online, including an easy-to-follow checklist, detailed best practices and tool recommendations and tips for interacting with whistleblowers and other at-risk sources.

Opioid Settlement Lawsuits

Our resource page is helping journalists cover the millions of dollars being distributed to communities as the result of litigation against opioid manufacturers, distributors and pharmacies. Click the link below to explore these resources.

Sensitivity Reads

Request a sensitivity read from our team of experts to reduce stigma in your reporting.

Expert Database

Use our vetted, searchable database of addiction subject matter experts from across the country. Or contact us directly so we can help you find what you need.

Newsroom Training

Want to improve how your newsroom covers addiction? We’re here for you. We offer flexible 1:1 and group training for you or your newsroom. Anyone. Anytime.

Expanded Language Style Guide

We developed a detailed glossary of common terminology used in addiction science and medicine fields, as well as language recommendations to decrease stigma in your reporting. Pay close attention to words with a Stigma Alert for those recommendations.

Expanded Visual Style Guide

To help improve visuals we developed training materials to decrease stigma in your image creation. Pay close attention to visuals associated with a stigma.

Check out these other journalism service organizations and resources to improve your reporting on a variety of topics here!

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