“I felt like I had a scarlet letter”: Recurring experiences of structural stigma surrounding opioid tapers among patients with chronic, non-cancer pain

•Initiatives to taper opioid prescriptions have altered the landscape of opioid therapy.•Various tapering initiatives exacerbate structural stigma experienced by patients.•Stigma especially impacts those with marginalized identities (e.g., race/ethnicity). Efforts to address opioid-involved overdose...

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