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Jay Luther, MD, is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Alcohol Liver Center.

In the first segment of this HCPLive special report, experts discuss the stigma surrounding alcohol use disorder and alcohol-associated liver disease.

The second segment of a special report stresses the importance of cross-specialty collaboration with hepatology and psychiatry when treating alcohol-related liver disease.

The vast majority of liver transplant centers in the United States use language on their websites that can be considered stigmatizing through their use of words like "alcoholism," "alcoholic" and "alcohol abuse,' potentially hindering care and the willingness of patients to seek treatment, a study by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has found.

<p>Researchers found that the use of stigmatizing words like &ldquo;alcoholic,&rdquo; &ldquo;alcoholism&rdquo; and &ldquo;alcohol abuse&rdquo; are used extensively on the websites of liver transplant centers in the U.S., potentially affecting the care of patients and their willingness to seek treatment.</p>