mayscontribute to alcohol use among Native American youth (=-=Herman-Stahl et al., 2003-=-).sAsstudy of Native American youth between 11 and 14 years of age, found a correlationsbetween high levels of alcohol use and low rates of involvement in traditional culture.sInsthe study, 57 ...
Cultural tailoring of the intervention aimed to provide Indian youth with skills to help them resist pressures toward substance use within Native society and in the larger dominant American society (Schinke et al., 1988). Within the context of contemporary Native American culture, youths learned ...
Sexual minorities (SM) have specific substance use patterns and show elevated rates of substance use and substance use disorders. We investigated the potential association between substance use - including chemsex drug use - among SM adults in the United States (US) and social inequality, with an...
Substance use among American Indians and Alaska natives: incorporating culture in an“indigenist” stress-coping paradigm. Public Health Rep. 2002;117:(suppl 1) S104-S11712435834PubMedGoogle Scholar 46. U.S. Census Bureau. United States: ACS demographic and housing estimates: 2005-2009; data ...
Information about and understanding of Native Hawaiian substance abuse and utilization of substance abuse treatment services is limited. This article reviews the literature on the prevalence and factors associated with substance abuse and use of health services among Native Hawaiian women in the U.S. ...
This chapter starts out with a theoretical discussion of the meaning of “drug”. As it turns out, three different kinds of psychoactive drugs can be distinguished. Central to this distinction is the understanding of appropriate medical use, which is...
programs derives from essentially three observations: 1) differences in substance use prevalence rates across racial/ethnic groups; 2) differences in the prevalence of the risk factors for substance use across racial/ethnic groups; and 3) differences in the predictors of substance use across groups....
In this chapter, we present commonly held myths regarding adolescent substance use. These myths include misconceptions around causes of adolescent substance use, consequences of adolescent substance use, and rates of substance use in marginalized and min
Substance abusers in focus groups identified a number of factors that made it difficult to reduce their sexual risk behavior, including the perceived disinhibiting effects of alcohol and other drugs, learned patterns of association between substance use and sex (especially methamphetamine use and anal ...
Offending Behaviour Among Young People with Complex Needs in the Australian Out-of-Home Care System Article20 February 2015 Changes in Mental Health Service Use over a Decade: Evidence from Two Cohorts of Youth Involved in the Child Welfare System ...