NIH R01 · 2025
Substance Use Among American Indian Youth: Epidemiology and Etiology
Project Summary This ongoing integrated epidemiologic and etiologic research study (Our Youth, Our Future) is the only source of nationally-representative substance use data for reservation-area American Indian (AI) adolescents, a population that is at-risk and experiences large health disparities. Substance use rates among AI adolescents have been greater than national rates for decades, and our current findings point to complex changes since the onset of COVID-19. Each year, 3,000 or more 6th - 12th grade reservation-area AI students will be surveyed to provide nationally-representative rates of substance use for this population. In collaboration with Monitoring the Future researchers,…
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