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. 2005;4(1):105-31.
doi: 10.1300/J233v04n01_07.

Trends in alcohol, drug and cigarette use among Haitian youth in Miami-Dade county, Florida

Louis Herns Marcelin  1 , James Vivian, Ralph DiClemente, James Shultz, J Bryan Page
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Trends in alcohol, drug and cigarette use among Haitian youth in Miami-Dade county, Florida

Louis Herns Marcelin et al. J Ethn Subst Abuse. 2005.

Abstract

The objective of this article is to report on prevalence of drug and cigarette use among a segment of Haitian youth in the United States. The article is an argument in favor of contextualizing knowledge about drug use among young people across socioethnic lines. Because initiation of licit and illicit drugs tends to occur during adolescence, ethnic differentiation is crucial if we are to understand the drug experience among young people in the United States. Immigration, acculturation, and identity processes are critical in refuting the conventional racial categorization commonly used for interpretation of risks and behaviors among youth in the United States. The task of bringing empirical evidence to bear on drug use and drug choices by young people from different contexts will lead to the re-examination of patterns of drug use as well as to creative ways of conceptualizing these patterns.

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ATOD Use Among Haitian and Florida Adolescents Ages 13 to 18
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ATOD Use Among Haitian Adolescents and Other Ethnic Groups in Florida
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