Self-Stigma Is Not a Monolith, but Generic Empathy Is: Persona-Conditioned LLM Support for People Who Use Drugs

arXiv:2606.23387v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Self-stigma predicts treatment avoidance and disengagement among people who use drugs (PWUD), yet conversational systems aiming to provide support typically treat self-stigma expression as a uniform signal. We present a three-phase, proof-of-concept study of a persona-aware approach to LLM support. Latent Profile Analysis (LPA) on indicator-level features from 1,174 self-stigma expressors on Reddit yields a four-persona typology validated against held-out behavioral and linguistic features. Sequential Bayesian and recurrent neural classifiers

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