DRUG USE AMONG YOUNG INDIANS: EPIDEMIOLOGY & CORRELATES

居住在保留地的印度青年吸毒率很高 参与度可能是所有种族中最高的。国家数据 消息来源充分监测非印度人的药物使用情况，但两者都没有 评估或歪曲印度的毒品使用。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提供的相同 非印第安人。定期调查将列出7-12年级学生的药物使用情况 被分层为代表印度青年的部落样本 预订部。还将对幼儿的药物使用情况进行研究 4-6年级学生的进一步样本。大麻的使用已经变得如此普遍 在年轻的美洲原住民中，十分之九的人尝试过，其中81%的人 继续使用它。我们将深入研究这一现象，包括 早期参与，使用行为和语境呈现大麻，在 与其他药物、态度、感知的使用原因相结合，以及 对大麻使用后果的看法。印度年轻人不仅使用 每一种药物都比非印度人更严重，但他们参与的年龄更小 年龄。年幼的印度儿童使用毒品和儿童与儿童的关系 因此，将对早期参与到后来使用药物的年龄进行研究。 青少年吸毒是以某种模式或症状发生的。的类型学 已经制定了对这些类型或类型的药物使用进行分类的方法，并将 将在该项目期间进一步研究。类型学还提供了一个 研究药物使用相关性的标准。我们之前的项目有 在印度年轻人的样本上，验证了各种衡量标准 潜在的相关因素，包括个性、态度、行为、家庭 以及同龄人的影响和文化认同。这些，以及新的措施， 将使用多变量和路径分析进行评估，以预测风格 以及涉及毒品的类型。广泛的报告程序将接连进行 将调查结果发送到特定的调查地点，服务于印度人的机构，以及 印度的政策和顾问委员会。

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.