Abstract
This study examined the relationship between perceived racial discrimination (PRD) and patterns of substance use. Data come from the 2001–2003 National Survey of American Life (N = 3,589). PRD was derived from the Major Experiences of Discrimination Scale. Multinomial logistic regression estimated the relationship between PRD and patterns of substance use (i.e., never/former, single-substance, dual-substance, and polysubstance [3+ substances]) based on six substances; effect modification by ethnicity and sex was assessed by stratification. Study findings indicated that PRD was associated with greater odds of lifetime and current polysubstance use. Results from the effect modification analyses suggested differential associations by ethnicity and sex.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1199-1218 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The NSAL is sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health under grant number U01-MH57716, with additional support from the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research at the NIH and the University of Michigan. The funding sponsors had no role in study design, data analysis or interpretation, manuscript preparation, or the decision to publish the results. This study used data from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research’s Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys (CPES). The authors would like to thank the researchers who compiled and harmonized the CPES data for public use.
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Keywords
- discrimination
- ethnicity
- minority health
- Polysubstance use
- race
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Medicine (miscellaneous)
- Health(social science)