Those excluded due to illness

Stigma is one of the oldest marks in the world, according to Felisa Perez, vice president of the Spanish Network for the Treatment of Addictions (UNAD): "In classical Greece, anyone who broke a law or a social or moral norm was branded on the body. They were given a stigma and excluded from society." According to Perez, today, people are not branded with a stamp on their bodies, but imaginary stigmas are placed on various people, including those…