Paul James is a 59-year-old former footballer, who was born in Wales but who represented the Canadian national team at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. Paul James on the stigma of crack cocaineSpeaking in an interview at the end of 2022, James was quite clear in his view that he lost work because of the stigma that was attached to him for using crack cocaine. "I don't think you should call anyone a drug addict, a crack addict, a junkie. "How do you ever recover from being labelled a homeless crack addict? "And it is those most vulnerable who suffer most from the devastation of the stigma: social exclusion, marginalized, poverty."

Source: thestar January 04, 2023 21:20 UTC