NCJ Number
119953
Journal
International Journal of the Addictions Volume: 24 Issue: 1 Dated: (1989) Pages: 1-18
Date Published
1989
Length
18 pages
Annotation
Recent epidemiological and sociocultural studies on the relationship between ethnicity and drug use have been restricted to broad heterogeneous groups and lacked adequate control groups, two limitations which the present study seeks to address.
Abstract
The data consists of responses from 3697 ethnically diverse Ontario students derived from a single-stage probability survey. Eight ethnic groupings -- Eastern European, Western European, British Isles, Black, Oriental, East/West Indian, Jewish, and Mediterranean -- were constructed. After controlling for background variables, the significant zero-order ethnicity effect for alcohol did not attenuate and was not conditional upon other independent variables. However, the significant zero-order ethnicity effect was spurious or conditional for other substance use measures. 8 tables, 3 endnotes, 13 references. (Author abstract modified)