DRUG USE AMONG INDIAN YOUTH: EPIDEMIOLOGY & CORRELATES

生活在保留地的印度年轻人的毒品水平非常高 参与度，可能是所有种族中最高的。 国家数据 来源充分监测非印度人的毒品使用，但也没有 评估或歪曲印度的毒品使用情况。 一个主要的项目目标是提供 印度人的流行病学框架与现在的印度人相同， 非印第安人 定期调查将绘制7 - 12年级学生的药物使用情况， 分层的部落样本，以代表生活在 保留 还将在一个 4 - 6年级学生的进一步样本。 海洋生物的使用已经变得如此普遍 在年轻的印第安人中，十分之九的人尝试过， 继续使用它。这一现象将被深入研究，包括 早期参与，呈现大麻使用行为和背景， 与其他药物的结合，态度，使用的原因，以及 关于大麻使用后果的信念。 印度青年不仅使用 每一种药物都比非印度人更严重，但他们在年轻时就参与其中， 年龄 印度年幼儿童使用毒品的情况以及 因此，将研究从早期参与到后来吸毒的年龄。 青少年吸毒是有规律的，也是有综合症的。 类型学 对这些类型或类型的药物使用进行分类的方法已经发展起来， 在本项目中进一步研究。 类型学还提供了一个 药物使用相关性研究的标准。 我们以前的项目有 在印度青年的样本上， 潜在的相关因素，包括个性，态度，行为，家庭 同伴影响和文化认同。 这些措施和新措施， 将使用多变量和路径分析进行评估，以预测风格 以及毒品的种类 广泛的报告程序将转达 调查结果提供给特定的调查地点，为印度人服务的机构， 印度政策和咨询委员会。

Indian youth living on reservations have very high levels of drug involvement, perhaps the highest of any ethnic group. National data sources adequately monitor drug use among non-Indians, but either do not assess or distort Indian drug use. A major project goal is to provide the same epidemiological framework for Indians as is now available for non-Indians. Regular surveys will chart drug use of 7th-12th graders in a sample of tribes stratified to be representative of Indian youth living on reservations. Drug use of very young children will also be studied in a further sample of 4th-6th graders. Marijuana use has become so widespread among young Native Americans that nine out of ten try it and 81% of them continue using it. This phenomenon will be examined indepth, including early involvement, present marijuana using behaviors and contexts, use in conjunction with other drugs, attitudes, perceived reasons for use, and beliefs about consequences of marijuana use. Indian youth not only use every drug more heavily than non-Indians, but they get involved at younger ages. Use of drugs by younger Indian children and the relationship of the age of early involvement to later drug use will, therefore, be studied. Adolescent drug use occurs in patterns or syndromes. A typology for classifying these styles or types of drug use has been developed and will be further studied during this project. The typology also provides a criterion for studies of drug use correlates. Our prior projects have validated, on samples of Indian youth, a wide variety of measures of potential correlates, including personality, attitudes, behaviors, family and peer influences and cultural identification. These, and new measures, will be evaluated using multivariate and path analyses to predict styles and types of drug involvement. Extensive reporting procedures will relay survey results to specific survey sites, to agencies serving Indians, and to Indian policy and advisory boards.