@article{81648c5cd6754fc0bb0cf5953eefaeeb,
title = "Cultural models of inhalant abuse among Navajo youth",
abstract = "Drug abuse prevention among adolescents can be more effective if it is based on an accurate knowledge of the cultural context and of how young people actually think about the drags that are commonly used. A study was undertaken among Navajo adolescents to query their perceptions of using drugs, what the social context of their drug use is and, in particular, their perceptions of inhalants as substances that are used to induce intoxication.",
author = "Trotter, {R. T.} and Rolf, {J. E.} and Baldwin, {J. A.}",
note = "Funding Information: 1. The project from which the data was partially derived, the Native American Prevention Project of AIDS and Substance Abuse (NAPPSASA), funded by and NIAAA grant R01-AA08578 (J. Rolf and C. Alexander, P.I.{\textquoteright}s) is a preventive intervention study involving school and community programs. It is designed to reduce the future incidents of HIV infection, alcoholism and drug abuse in American Indian adolescents. The project{\textquoteright}s prevention programs are being developed and evaluated by combining culturally sensitive, qualitative and quantitative research methods applied by a consortium of persons from Johns Hopkins University Department of Maternal and Child Health and Northern Arizona University{\textquoteright}s Department of Anthropology, in cooperation with Navajo experts from public schools and community organizations. Following common anthropological ethical guidelines, the schools, community organizations and individuals are not being identified, to protect the confidentiality preferences of our informants. However, it should be noted that this project was conducted on the Western Agency of the Navajo Nation and that the results should not be taken as necessarily representative of the Navajo Nation as a whole, since there are well-documented linguistic, cultural, social and economic variation between regions of the Navajo Nation.",
year = "1997",
doi = "10.1300/J023v10n01_03",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "10",
pages = "39--59",
journal = "Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse",
issn = "1533-2640",
publisher = "Routledge",
number = "1-2",
}