DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION

预防药物滥用三民族研究中心被设计为 美国原住民药物滥用预防研究的全国性资源， 墨西哥裔美国人和西部白人美国青年。这将是一场初选 科学家和政策制定者获取流行病学数据和数据的接入点 病因学。它将从事青少年吸毒病因学的研究， 研究在校青少年和高危人群的一般人群 辍学生和违法者等群体。它将探索社会， 两者滥用药物的心理和文化基础 横断面和纵向研究。该中心将致力于 构建和测试理论和模型并评估其影响 用于预防。它将特别侧重于比较和对比 三个种族的结果，找出相似之处和 对预防很重要的差异。该中心将设计这两个 针对高危人群的全社区预防计划和特别计划 冒着年轻人的风险。它将使用随机分配来评估这些计划 设计和评估过程和结果。它将成为固体和天然气的来源 关于最新技术的最新信息；确定哪些预防措施 项目正在墨西哥裔美国人和美洲原住民社区进行， 并举办了一系列会议，为研究科学家提供 评估已知情况并提出进一步研究建议的机会 议程。它将大力参与传播；以科学的方式出版- 学术期刊和从业者的期刊，并将研究结果提交给 演示和研讨会中的现场专业人员。该中心将帮助 通过提供研究为预防研究的未来奠定基础 为少数民族博士后和博士后提供培训机会。

The Tri-ethnic Center for Study of Drug Abuse Prevention is designed to be a national resource for drug abuse prevention research for Native-American, Mexican-American, and western White-American youth. It will be a primary access point for scientists and policy makers for data on epidemiology and etiology. It will engage in research on the etiology of youth drug use, studying both the general population of school-based youth and high risk groups such as dropouts and delinquents. It will explore the social, psychological and cultural underpinnings of drug abuse in both cross-sectional and longitudinal studies. The Center will be engaged in building and testing theories and models and assessing their implications for prevention. It will focus particularly on comparing and contrasting results across three ethnic groups, identifying similarities and differences that are important for prevention. The Center will design both community-wide prevention programs and special programs targeted at high risk youth. It will evaluate those programs, using random assignment designs and assessing process and outcome. It will be a source of solid and current information on the state of the art; determining what prevention programs are occurring in Mexican-American and Native-American communities, and presenting a series of conferences to give research scientists an opportunity to evaluate what is known and to suggest further research agendas. It will be heavily involved in dissemination; publishing in scien- tific journals and journals of practitioners, and presenting findings to field professionals in presentations and workshops. The Center will help to set the stage for the future of prevention research by providing research training opportunities for minority post-doctoral and doctoral students.