Overview
- Brings together research on the reasons for racial and ethnic differences in rates of drug use and drug use disorders
- Focuses on drug use among African Americans and Hispanics in the United States but discusses research that has key implications for the health of all ethnic and racial groups
- Identifies underexplored risk and protective factors and gaps in the current state of knowledge that can be used to develop effective, culturally specific drug abuse prevention strategies
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About this book
This volume examines trajectories of drug use among ethnic minority youth in the United States with a focus on African Americans and Hispanics. It also highlights what research designs have been employed to address these differences as well as suggests strategies for moving this discourse forward by identifying potential targets for prevention and intervention with minority youth.
This book features essays by leading experts in the field who have grappled with this issue for decades. Inside, readers will find an insightful dialogue that addresses such questions as: Why are African American and Hispanic youth more likely than their White peers to abstain from drug use during adolescence but are more likely to become problem users later in life? What impact does the stress caused by discrimination have on potential drug use? To what extent does religiosity protect minority youth from drug use as past research suggests that it protects White youth? What is the influence ofneighborhood context on exposure to and use of substances among urban African American children? Taken together, the essays in this book identify underexplored risk and protective factors and gaps in the current state of knowledge that can be used to develop effective, culturally specific drug abuse prevention strategies.
This book is for anyone with an interest in the initiation and escalation of drug use among African Americans and Hispanics/Latinos and factors that influence these patterns over the life course. It will also be an ideal resource for those interested in better understanding the mechanisms by which risk and protective factors are related to the development of drug use and addiction, particularly the ways in which such factors contribute to health differences and have disproportionately more negative consequences for ethnic minorities.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
tes of Health (NIH). She currently has faculty and research appointments at Howard University and at the Miller School of Medicine, xxvii University of Miami. She worked at Howard University as an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and adjunct Associate Professor of Research and a Senior Research Fellow with the Center for Minority Health Services Research (CMHSR) within the College of Pharmacy at Howard University and at the Miller School of Medicine as a Voluntary Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences. Dr. Thomas is a social epidemiologist, with training in epidemiology, medical sociology, and demography. Her primary research and publications have focused on the social epidemiology of drug abuse and HIV/AIDS and the link with geography and geographic methods. At the National Institute on Drug Abuse, she lead the development of the Institute’s research focus on the social epidemiology of drug abuse and HIV/AIDS and the role of the social environment. At the NIH, she led a trans-NIH workgroup on the mapping of the social environment as it relates to the social determinants of health, and developed and stimulated a portfolio of science broadly focused on social epidemiology, genetic liability, and phenotypic heterogeneity, and human development across the life course.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Drug Use Trajectories Among Minority Youth
Editors: Yonette F. Thomas, LeShawndra N. Price
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7491-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7489-5Published: 09 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1359-5Published: 15 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-7491-8Published: 01 September 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVIII, 426
Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology, general, Developmental Psychology, Psychiatry, Public Health, Behavioral Sciences