Social Networks among Drug-Using Ethnic Minority Youth

描述：(申请人提供) 这项为期一年的研究旨在分析东南地区对社交网络的使用 亚裔青年和多民族城市地区的青年成年人获得毒品和 关于毒品的信息。老年移民和年轻移民之间的差异 美国东南亚社区的第一代和第二代成员 所用药物的类型和使用情况可能表明增加 东南亚青年一代与邻国的互动 其他种族的吸毒者。对社交网络的分析可以确定 东南亚人是否与来自其他种族的年轻人互动 使用的药物类型、获得药物的手段以及关于以下方面的想法和信息 毒品。我建议对12名吸毒者进行开放式访谈 东南亚人，年龄在16岁到23岁之间，来自一个多民族的城市社区 加州？S湾区。这项研究是分析 与同龄人群体和邻里环境相关的风险 东南亚吸毒青年的文化适应过程。目前的研究 将具体调查： O吸毒的东南亚人如何获得毒品和有关毒品使用的信息； O吸毒的东南亚青年的社会网络是否主要是 同一民族或多民族；以及 O与第二代药物使用相比，第一代药物使用情况是否有所不同 东南亚人。

DESCRIPTION: (provided by applicant) This one-year study seeks to analyze the use of social networks by Southeast Asian youth and young adults in multiethnic urban areas to obtain drugs and information about drugs. Differences between older immigrants and younger first- and second-generation members of U.S. Southeast Asian communities in the types of drugs used and contexts of drug use may indicate increased inter-actions between the younger generation Southeast Asian and neighboring drug-users of other ethnicities. An analysis of social networks can establish whether Southeast Asians interact with youth from other ethnicities relative to types of drugs used, means of obtaining drugs, and ideas and information about drugs. I propose to conduct open-ended interviews with twelve drug-using Southeast Asians, aged 16-23, from one multi-ethnic urban neighborhood in California?s Bay Area. This study represents an initial stage in analyzing risks associated with peer groups and neighborhood environment in the acculturation process of drug-using Southeast Asian youths. The present study will specifically investigate: o How drug-using Southeast Asians obtain drugs and information about drug use; o Whether the social networks of drug-using Southeast Asian youth are primarily same- or poly-ethnic; and o Whether this differs for first- compared to second-generation drug-using Southeast Asians.