Background Racial/ethnic disparities exist at many levels of substance use disorder (SUD)
treatment and recovery, reflecting biological and socioeconomic factors. However …

The worldview of American Indians turns on the Seventh Generation Principle, namely that
decisions—personal, corporate, governmental—by those who came before us affect today …

Aim: Contrary to expectations, studies of racial-ethnic disparities in substance use disorder
(SUD) treatment frequently uncover minority-majority parity in access and utilization of …

A few years ago two social scientists attended a faculty development course on cultural
awareness that my colleagues and I offered to medical school faculty. Their research …

Substance use and abuse continue to present an important social challenge for the United
States. Tobacco use and alcohol misuse are major contributors to such health problems as …

Black adolescents in the US are less likely to use alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco compared
with non-Hispanic Whites, but little is known about the consistency of these racial/ethnic …

Background: Substance use is an public health issue among the nation's young adults. To
understand the magnitude of the emerging issue, it is useful to put substance use among …

Abstract Background: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, tobacco,
alcohol, and marijuana are the most used substances among US adolescents, and racial …

L iving in a high-risk, urban environment has a deleterious influence on mental health
outcomes among adolescent and emerging adult males of color (Lindsey et al., 2006 …

Background. Minority persons have less access to many specialty treatments and services,
possibly because of clinician biases. It is not clear whether any such biases exist in primary …