Perception of Substance Use Problems in Asian American Communities by Chinese, Indian, and Vietnamese American Youth

Lee, Mo Yee; Law, Fang Mei; Eo, Eunjoo; Oliver, Elizabeth

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“…While the representation of Asian males on American college campuses has increased exponentially in the past two decades (Cook & Cordova, 2007; U.S. Department of Education, 2010), so too have their rates of heavy drinking and alcohol dependence (Grant et al, 2004; Wechsler et al, 2002). Given Asian men’s disinclination towards utilizing campus mental health services and preference for using personal resources to address substance misuse (e.g., Lee, Law, Eo, & Oliver, 2002; Sue, Fujino, Hu, Takeuchi, & Zane, 1991), PBS-based alcohol interventions that screen for mental health risk may be a feasible approach by which to address co-occuring mental health-alcohol problems in this subgroup. Moreover, evidence supports that interventions integrating cultural-specific approaches may be particularly effective (Griner & Smith, 2006).…”

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“…Evidence shows escalations in heavy alcohol use and problems among Asian college students (Grant, Dawson, Stinson, Chou, Dufour, & Pickering, 2004; Wechsler, Dowdall, Maenner, Gledhill-Hoyt, & Lee, 1998; Lee, Kuo, Seibring, Nelson, & Lee, 1998, 2002). Despite traditional conceptualizations of Asians as low risk drinkers, recent research has documented that Asians who do drink exhibit trajectories of increasing HED and alcohol problems during their college years (Iwamoto, Corbin, & Fromme, 2010).…”

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“…Asian American students’ enrollment at 4-year undergraduate institutions increased 40.1% from 1994 to 2004 (Cook & Cordova, 2007). Further, compared with other ethnic groups, Asian Americans have higher levels of psychological distress but lower rates of mental health treatment utilization (Atkinson & Gim, 1989; Eisenberg & Chung, 2012; Kearney, Draper, & Barón, 2005; Lee, Law, Eo, & Oliver, 2002; Okazaki, 1997; Sue, Fujino, Hu, Takeuchi, & Zane, 1991). Moreover, depressive symptoms are linked to alcohol behaviors in this population (Iwamoto, Liu, & McCoy, 2011).…”

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Use of protective behavioral strategies and reduced alcohol risk: Examining the moderating effects of mental health, gender, and race.

Kenney¹,

LaBrie²

2013

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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Recent research indicates that protective behavioral strategies (PBS)—previously established as effective self-regulating tools for reducing alcohol risk among college students—may be especially useful for students with poor mental health, who are shown to be at heightened risk for alcohol-related harm. The current study examined the moderating influence of mental health (depression and anxiety severity), gender, and race (White, Asian) in the relationship between PBS use and alcohol-related negative consequences. Participants were 1,782 undergraduate students from two West Coast universities who reported past month incidence of heavy episodic drinking. Students reported on their drinking, experience of alcohol-related consequences, use of PBS, and depression and anxiety symptomatology. Overall, results demonstrated that among participants experiencing depression or anxiety, greater PBS utilization was associated with significantly lower levels of alcohol-related consequences, even after controlling for drinking and other predictors. However, findings also revealed important distinctions in the potential effectiveness of PBS by depression/anxiety severity and racial-gender subgroup, such that Asian men with poor mental health appeared to garner unique and substantial benefit (i.e., lesser consequences) from increased PBS use. Further, PBS were found to offer substantial protective benefit for White females, irrespective of mental health. This study points to the potential for targeted PBS-specific skills training and interventions to minimize alcohol-related risks faced by the growing subpopulation of college students experiencing psychological distress, and further highlights important race-gender differentials.

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2013

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“…Other studies have suggested key differences among ethnonational-subgroups of Asian Americans in initiation and degree of substance use (Harachi et al, 2001; M. Y. Lee, Law, Eo, & Oliver, 2002). The NHSDA also indicates that although Asian Americans generally have one of the lowest rates of drug use, like other ethnic groups, Asian American youth and young adults have tried and are using drugs at higher rates than older Asian Americans, indicating that this is a group to be watched in the future.…”

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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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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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“…Using data from primarily student-based populations, research generally finds that Filipinos have the highest prevalence of substance use (Chen, Unger, Cruz, & Johnson, 1999;Wong, Klingle, & Price, 2004), while Chinese seem to have the lowest prevalence of substance use (Chen et al, 1999;Lee, Law, Eo, & Oliver, 2002;Wong et al, 2004). One study on prescription drug misuse found that Japanese students have the highest level of sedative use and higher levels of amphetamine use than every other subgroup with the exception of Filipinos (Harachi et al, 2001).…”

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Prescription Drug Misuse Among Asian-American Adults: Results From a National Survey

Watkins

Ford

2011

Substance Use & Misuse

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Asians have low levels of substance use compared with other groups in the United States. Given the increase in Asian population, we believe it is important to study substance use in this population. Data from the 2002-2003 National Latino and Asian American Study are examined to address two questions. First, which Asian ethnic subgroup is at greatest risk for prescription drug misuse? Second, is acculturation significantly correlated with prescription drug misuse among Asians? Findings indicate that Filipinos are at the greater risk for prescription drug misuse. Also, Asians who are more acculturated are at greater risk for prescription drug misuse.

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Perception of Substance Use Problems in Asian American Communities by Chinese, Indian, and Vietnamese American Youth

Cited by 8 publications

References 14 publications

Use of protective behavioral strategies and reduced alcohol risk: Examining the moderating effects of mental health, gender, and race.

Use of protective behavioral strategies and reduced alcohol risk: Examining the moderating effects of mental health, gender, and race.

Asian American Identity and Drug Consumption: From Acculturation to Normalization

Prescription Drug Misuse Among Asian-American Adults: Results From a National Survey

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