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Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted from January to July 2017. Patients attending two selected SerD facilities in the city of Naples, Italy were interviewed with a questionnaire gathering information on sociodemographic data, characteristics of drug addiction, characteristics of enrolment at the SerD, self-reported health status and wellness, and reports of the discrimination suffered. Results: Among the 451 people interviewed, 72.3% had started taking drugs by the age of 20, and half of them have used drugs within the last year. 54.5% of responders attended SerD for more than 10 years, and the two main reasons for attendance were to get help and to get methadone. 79.4% were declared to have a good\/very good\/excellent health status at the time of interviewing. 53.7% reported suffering from discrimination. Conclusions: Based on our study, discrimination is higher in participants who attended SerD for more than one year, who were formerly in prison, or who were current drug users.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/medicina55100662","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,9,30]],"date-time":"2019-09-30T13:16:41Z","timestamp":1569849401000},"page":"662","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["The Discrimination Against, Health Status and Wellness of People Who Use Drugs in Italian Services: A Survey"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"55","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4228-8703","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Concetta Paola","family":"Pelullo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Campania \u201cLuigi Vanvitelli\u201d, Via Luciano Armanni 5, 80138 Naples, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Fabio","family":"Curcio","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Servizio per le Dipendenze, DS 25, ASLNA1, Uscita sottopasso G.B. 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