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“Stop Judging. Start Healing.”
Joint Alabama Department of Public Health and Department of Mental Health anti-stigma campaign (US-AL) launched December 2019 with TV, radio and social ads urging people-first language about mental illness, substance and opioid use disorders, HIV and hepatitis C; later extended to clinicians through VitAL Alabama stigma summits that continued into 2023.
- Years
- 2019–now
- Country
- United States
- Topic
- DrugsMental healthOpioids
- Asks people to
- Reduce stigmaSeek help
- Strategy
- Stigma reductionTestimonial
- Channel
- Clinical settingEventsRadioSocial (paid)TV
- Audience
- CliniciansGeneral public
Evidence
NoneUnknown
No evaluation found.
Sponsor (who paid)
- Alabama Department of Public Health State local government, co-funder
- Alabama Department of Mental Health State local government, co-funder
Credits (who made it)
Executions (individual ads)
- ADPH | Stop Judging Start Healing | Opioid Use tv · youtube
- ADPH | Stop Judging Start Healing | Substance Use Disorder tv · youtube
- ADPH | Stop Judging Start Healing | Mental Illness tv · youtube
- ADPH | Stop Judging Start Healing | Dalana's Story social-paid · youtube
- ADPH | Stop Judging Start Healing | Jeff's Story social-paid · youtube
- ADPH | Stop Judging Start Healing | "Addict" Social Video social-paid · youtube
- ADPH | Stop Judging Start Healing | "Alcoholic" Social Video social-paid · youtube
- ADPH | Stop Judging Start Healing | "Crazy" Social Vid social-paid · youtube
- ADPH | Stop Judging Start Healing | "Words Can Hurt" Social Vid 2 social-paid · youtube
- ADPH Substance Use Disorder Radio radio · youtube
- ADPH Mental Illness Radio radio · youtube
Related campaigns
- Opioids Take 2024–now
- Life Unites Us 2020–now
- Michigan opioid use disorder stigma campaign 2019–2020
Sources
- ADPH and ADMH partner to break the cycle of stigma sponsor · 2019
- ADMH: New resource to stop stigma - Stop Judging, Start Healing sponsor · 2020
- WAFF: Stop Judging, Start Healing: new campaign aims to change the way we speak news · 2019
- Alabama Public Radio: Alabama event aims to prevent stigmatizing the addicted news · 2023
- stopjudging.org campaign site (Wayback, Jun 2020) archive · 2020
Research notes
US-AL. Discovered 2026-10-22 for #17. Pre-2021 launch, kept because the campaign (summits for clinicians and justice staff, VitAL) was still running in 2023. Credits checked 2026-10-22 against fetched pages: Stamp Ideas is inferred from the agency's own YouTube channel ('Stamp Ideas') hosting the ADPH spots, not from a case-study page (none found on stampideas.com); VitAL role per APR 24 Jan 2023 (fetched): the Stop Judging: Start Healing summit tour is 'an effort of a group known as VitAL' (role label 'strategy' is approximate). Site status 2026-10-22: taken over (stopjudging.org now a generic blog-style page with no ADPH/ADMH branding; do not link it as the campaign site); Wayback copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20200613053429/https://stopjudging.org/. Execution years unknown (YouTube shows 5-6 years ago, i.e. 2019-2021). ADPH 2019 release, ADMH 2020 page and WAFF 2019 story are cited from search results (not fetched); the TV/radio/social description comes from the WAFF/ADPH snippets. Reuse terms checked 2026-10-23 by an AI research pass for #47; not yet reviewed by a person.
Record cases/al-stop-judging-start-healing.json, updated 2026-10-23· Link to this campaign