National AAPI Substance Abuse Research Infrastructure

描述（由申请人提供）： 全国亚太裔美国人家庭反对药物滥用组织（NAPAFASA）与NIDA AAPI研究员和学者工作组协商，建议在五年内举行一系列会议，解决AAPI中的药物使用/滥用问题。这些会议将采用区域办法，将来自不同的AAPI分组和地理区域的研究人员和服务提供者聚集在一起，为AAPI建立一个国家药物滥用研究基础设施。拟议的一系列会议的具体目标是：建立一个以AAPI为重点的药物滥用研究倡议; 2.鼓励亚裔美国人参与职业发展方案，特别强调培养专注于亚裔美国人物质使用/滥用的行为和社会科学研究人员; 3.在研究人员、服务提供者和亚太裔社区之间建立一个沟通系统，以传播有关药物滥用的研究结果; 4.在亚太裔美国人行为和社会科学家与亚太裔美国人社区服务组织之间建立药物滥用研究和数据收集合作机制;以及5.传播与培训、联网和筹资机会有关的药物滥用研究信息。拟议在五年期间举行的一系列会议的总体目标是：发展具有文化能力的药物滥用预防和治疗研究; 2.制定适合于亚裔艾滋病患者亚群体的方法，这些方法将更有针对性地满足这些群体的需求，并有助于研究方法，包括可用于城市和半城市亚裔艾滋病患者人群的其他研究的多文化药物术语词典; 3.通过增加在AAPI药物滥用问题上有能力的科学家和在研究方法、术语和实践方面有能力的AAPI社区服务提供者的数量，增加AAPI行为和社会科学研究项目的数量; 4.为滥用药物者设立药物滥用服务使用数据库;及5.建立亚太裔人口中药物使用/滥用流行病学数据。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The National Asian Pacific American Families Against Substance Abuse (NAPAFASA) in consultation with the NIDA AAPI Researcher and Scholar Workgroup proposes a series of conferences over a five-year period that will address substance use/abuse among AAPIs. Using a regional approach, the conferences will bring together researchers and service providers from the diverse AAPI sub-groups and geographic regions to build a national substance abuse research infrastructure for AAPIs. The specific aims of the proposed series of conferences intend to: 1. establish a substance abuse research initiative that focuses on AAPIs; 2. encourage AAPI participation in career development programs with particular emphasis on the development of behavioral and social science researchers focusing on AAPI substance use/abuse; 3. establish a communication system amongst the researchers, service providers, and the AAPI communities to disseminate pertinent substance abuse research findings; 4. develop a mechanism for substance abuse research and data collection collaboration between AAPI behavioral and social scientists and AAPI community-based service organizations; and 5. disseminate substance abuse research information related to training, networking, and funding opportunities. The overall goals of the proposed series of conferences to be conducted over a five-year period are to: 1. develop substance abuse prevention and treatment research that is culturally competent; 2. develop methodologies that are appropriate for AAPI sub-groups that will be more targeted to the needs of these groups and contribute to the research methodology including a multicultural drug terminology lexicon that can be used in other studies with urban and semi-urban AAPI populations; 3. increase the numbers of AAPI research projects in the behavioral and social sciences by increasing the number of scientists with competence in AAPI substance abuse issues and AAPI community-based service providers with competence in research methodology, terminology, and practices; 4. establish a substance abuse services utilization database for AAPIs; and 5. establish data for the epidemiology of substance use/abuse in the AAPI populations.