Ramada Inn
Rockville, MD 20852
July 20-21, 2005

NIDA Organizers:
The Division of Epidemiology, Services, and Prevention Research Health
Disparities Work Group, Chair: Dionne Jones, Ph.D., Services Research Branch

Meeting Purpose:

Meeting Outcome:

First panel:

• A comparative analysis of drug and tobacco use among persons 15-54 years in two American Indian communities;
• An examination of disparities in drug use, service utilization, attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors among US/Mexico border residents at three sites;
• Evaluation of a treatment program for African American and White veterans admitted to a Veterans Medical Center for cocaine dependency; and
• Substance use and HIV-related risk practices among a sample of foreign- and US-born Southeast Asians in an urban setting.

Second panel:

• The role of childhood living arrangements and older siblingsÕ behavior on adolescent drug use, as well as the relationship between race/ethnicity and drug use;
• Differences in cognitive development of African American and White children about drugs and childrenÕs intuitive theories regarding drug use, and the effects of drug use; and
• The consequences of drug use on the transition from adolescence to adulthood.

Third panel:

• The effects of exposure to community violence and ethnic identity development on substance use in a sample of African American youth 14-18 years old;
• Protective effects of competence skills on adolescent drug use; competence skills based on decision making, self-regulation, and self-reinforcement were shown to be protective against drug use; and
• Microsocial dynamics of multisystemic therapy, particularly the ability of therapists to implement evidence-based treatment models in a culturally competent way.

Fourth panel:

• A cognitive behavioral stress management intervention for HIV-positive, recovering drug abusers among whom high rates of co-occurring conditions were observed;
• Differences in access to services and perceptions of quality of life among a racially mixed sample; criminal justice disparities leading to health disparities; and racial differences in drug purchasing behaviors; and
• An intervention that utilized different approaches to reduce HIV risk among out-of-treatment drug users.

Fifth panel:

• The relationship of race/ethnicity with immutable individual differences, mutable predispositions, background variables, and acute precipitants of smoking motivation and relapse among African American and Hispanic smokers;
• Racial differences related to health problems and needs, and substance abuse treatment;
• Individual- and program-level measures that were developed to examine two types of treatment programs; and
• Special efforts made to develop procedures to increase the number of Asian participants recruited to a study on smoking cessation.

Sixth panel:

• Drug abuse, health and access to enabling resources and medical care among a group of homeless women;
• The relationship between acculturation and intake levels of drug use among dual diagnosed Hispanic adolescents referred for residential treatment;
• Evaluation of the efficacy of contingency management for Latino substance abuse patients entering treatment, and assessment of differences among Latino, African American and European American patients; and
• Drug use among Asian American youth in the electronic dance music scene in San Francisco.

Expected follow-up

Resulting Publications

Participant list (PDF Format, 132k), (Word Format, 108k)
Agenda (PDF Format, 108k), (Word Format, 80k)