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January 1, 2003 | Book
This chapter of the Anthology focuses on one city trying to address what seemed like an intractable problem. In the 1970s and 1980s, Gallup, N.M. had a frighteningly high rate of alcohol abuse, mostly because of heavy drinking among Native Americans coming to town from the surrounding reservations.
February 1, 2003 | Program Results Report
In the summer of 2001, the Cook Inlet Tribal Council created its Summer Youth Enhancement Camp a program of reforestation, education and cultural appreciation near Ninilchik, Alaska.
May 1, 2003 | Program Results Report
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) created a task force of representatives from a variety of ethnic/racial organizations and traffic safety professionals to provide advice about how to reach special populations effectively.
July 1, 2003 | Program Results Report
Northwest New Mexico Fighting Back worked to reduce the demand for alcohol and other drugs in San Juan, McKinley and Cibola counties, a 15,000 square mile region with a large Native American population.
October 1, 2003 | Program Results Report
The White Mountain Apache Tribe organized "cluster" groups of people with similar interests as a way to find solutions to community problems, especially in the area of substance abuse.
March 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Two measures of problem drinking among Mexican Americans in Texas City, Texas were studied examining the relationship of nativity and concentration of Hispanics living in the neighborhood. A total of 1,435 Mexican Americans ages 25 years and older w ...
September 10, 2007 | Program Results Report
Native Americans suffer disproportionately compared with other groups in the United States from diseases and death due to alcohol, drugs and substance abuse.
March 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
Alcohol remains one of the most pressing public health concerns in many American Indian and Alaska Native communities. As sovereign nations, American Indian and Alaska Native tribes have the ability to pass a wide range of laws to control alcohol, which may be an important component of more comprehensive prevention planning. This Knowledge Asset focuses on evidence about the potential impact of these policies.
January 1, 2009 | Book
In this chapter of the Anthology, Digby Diehl, a freelance writer and frequent Anthology contributor, chronicles the work of Catholic Social Services to bring mental health and substance abuse counseling to the Lakota Sioux living on or near reservations in rural South Dakota. Like many of the up-close-and-personal stories featured in the Anthology, this project was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Local Initiative Funding Partners program.
July 23, 2009 | Story
Marlatt and colleagues conducted a study in a prison in Seattle in which inmates were given the opportunity to participate in a 10-day Vipassana meditation course.