Drug use behaviors among asian drug users in san francisco

Nemoto, Tooru; Aoki, Bart; Huang, Karen; Morris, Anne; Nguyen, Hung Q.; Wong, Wynnie

doi:10.1016/s0306-4603(99)00020-9

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“…Increasingly, however, this assumption is viewed as erroneous. More recent publications, especially those drawing from locally based studies, highlight the extent to which substance use is significant and increasing within Asian American communities (Harachi, Catalano, Kim, & Choi, 2001;Ja & Aoki, 1993;Jang, 1996;Nemoto et al, 1999;O'Hare & Tran, 1998;Zane & Huh-Kim, 1994 Our previous research into the club drug use and the rave/dance/club scenes in the San Francisco area (see Hunt, Evans, Wu, and Reyes, 2005), combined with other local reports, indicated an increasing prominence of Asian Americans within club drug scenes, such as raves, warehouse parties, and dance clubs. We found numerous Asian American club promoters and event organizers and increasing numbers of Asian American youth attending clubs and dance events.…”

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Asian American Identity and Drug Consumption: From Acculturation to Normalization

Moloney

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Evans

2008

Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse

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This article analyzes the relationship between substance use and ethnic identity in the narratives of 206 young Asian Americans in a dance club/rave scene. We examine the meaning of drug use and found three types of narratives invoked to explain their drug use. The first noted difficulties arising from their Asian-American identities, the experience of culture clash and stresses associated with acculturation and Americanization. The second viewed their drug consumption as unusual among Asian Americans and saw their drug use as indicative of the degree to which they've grown apart from Asian culture and toward white/American culture. The final group saw neither their identities as Asian Americans, as drug users, nor as Asian American drug users as problematic. Drug use was a normal, accepted, and mundane part of their leisure time, not something they viewed as problematic or unusual. KeywordsDrug Use; Asian American Youth; Ethnicity; Ethnic Identity; Normalization; Acculturation Despite improvements in recent years, the depth and breadth of scholarship on substance use among Asian American youth is far less than that of white and African American (and to a lesser extent, Latino) youth. This is not a trend unique to the drug and alcohol fields; indeed, Asian American youth remain somewhat understudied throughout the social sciences, humanities, and medicine and the insights of Asian American studies are often not fully integrated into more general youth cultural studies Maira, 2002). 1 The result is that we know relatively little about Asian American drug use. Epidemiological studies of Asian American drug use have often lacked "sufficient numbers of cases to examine patterns of drug use among young people who were not members of the three largest racial and ethnic groups (whites, African Americans, and Hispanic Americans)" (Wallace et al., 2002, p. S74). Most national studies either omit mention of Asian Americans entirely, or lump Asian Americans into a broader (and generally unstudied) category of "other" (Ja & Aoki, 1993, p. 61). The two major national studies of drug use -Monitoring the Future (MTF) and the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) -still do not provide detailed information about Asian American drug use due to small sample sizes.Beyond the question of sample sizes, one of the primary reasons for the neglect of Asian Americans in drug scholarship has been the belief that drug use among Asian Americans is not a problem. This belief has stemmed in part from the results of a few national surveys that found Address correspondence to: Geoffrey Hunt, Institute for Scientific Analysis, 1150 Ballena Blvd., #211, Alameda, CA 94501 (e-mail: huntgisa@ix.netcom.com). 1 For a few key texts on Asian American youth, see Danico, 2004;Kibria, 2002; S. J. Lee, 1996;Maira, 2002;Min, 2002. NIH Public Access for Asian Americans "much lower overall use prevalence rates than most other ethnic/racial groups" (Austin, 1999, p. 208). This portrayal seems to confirm the stereotype of Asian American youth...

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Asian American Identity and Drug Consumption: From Acculturation to Normalization

Moloney

Hunt

Evans

2008

Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse

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“…It may be the case that because alcohol use is so pervasive among APIs, the levels of education do not matter in terms of engaging in risky sexual behaviors after drinking. It is extremely difficult to reach out to APIs who use drugs, because they are not visible in the community and are less likely to be found in drug user networks at visible street drug scenes (Nemoto et al, 2000). Because of the stigma related to drug use, API drug users are hidden in the community.…”

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“…A study among Filipino amphetamine users showed that they faced risk for HIV through unprotected sex, sex while under the influence of drugs and alcohol, injection drug use, and low rates of HIV testing (Nemoto, Operario, & Soma, 2002). Previous studies (Nemoto et al, 1999;Nemoto, Operario et al, 2003) clearly showed that both API MSM and substance users who are not MSM engage in risky sexual behaviors and sex under the influence of substances. However, past research studies do not provide a clear picture on the prevalence of HIV risk behaviors in API communities because studies tended to focus on one specific risk group, either API MSM or substance users.…”

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“…Studies showed the alarming rates of drug use among acculturated API adolescents and API adolescents who perform poorly in school (Ellickson & Morton, 1999;James, Kim, & Armijo, 2000). Filipinos (48%) were more likely to report using heroin than Chinese (11%) and Vietnamese (12%), whereas Chinese (63%) and Vietnamese (69%) were more likely to report using crack than were Filipinos (35%) (Nemoto et al, 1999). Injection drug use was more common among American-born Asians (39%) compared with Asian immigrants (7%).…”

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