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            Senior Scientist, William (Bill) C. Kerr, PhD, is Director of ARG’s National Alcohol Research Center and Co-Directs the National Alcohol Survey and the Health Disparities projects.  Bill also serves as the scientific director at ARG and continues to lead R01 projects, including a grant to investigate secondhand harms from alcohol and other drugs.

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            Scientist Nina Mulia, DrPH, is Center Associate Director and Director of the Alcohol Services project. She specializes in and has published widely on race and ethnicity and socioeconomic disparities in heavy drinking, alcohol problems, and alcohol services utilization.

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            This project, led by Camillia Lui, PhD, traces trends in harmful drinking patterns over a 40-year period, and identifies a range of alcohol-related precursors and problems through event-based and population-based approaches to inform early screening and interventions for high-risk groups.

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            Scientist and Deputy Scientific Director, Priscilla Martinez, oversees the survey design, data collection, and analyses.  In the latest cycle of the NAS, Priscilla conducted dried blood spot sampling to help better understand the relationship between how our immune systems work and what role they might play in how alcohol use can affect our mental health.

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Drinking & Problem Epidemiology in Blacks & Hispanics

Funding: NIAAA R01 AA10013

This study involved a national probability sample of Blacks and Hispanics in 1994. The survey, as the one in 1984, was conducted together with a national survey of the U.S. population (n=2,000) conducted that same year. One of the aims of the 1994 survey was to allow for trends analysis in drinking patterns, problems, attitudes toward drinking and drunkenness in a comparative frame among whites, Blacks and Hispanics. This was the first time trends analysis were conducted on alcohol-related data on representative national samples of Blacks and Hispanics. Such analyses are specially important now that trends suggesting a decrease in alcohol consumption have been detected among whites but not among Blacks and Hispanics. New cross-sectional analyses on alcohol expectancies, attitudes toward drinking, reasons for drinking and recognition and views on alcohol policies in minority communities were also done. These analyses were aimed at covering several important gaps in the alcohol literature with Blacks and Hispanics, as follows: (a) description and testing of the factor structure of alcohol expectancy, attitudes toward drinking and reasons for drinking; (b) assessment of the relationship between expectancies, attitudes and reasons for drinking and drinking patterns; and (c) support for alcohol control policies and factors that underlie it. Taken together, these trends and cross-sectional analyses provided a major contribution to the study of alcohol problems among Blacks and Hispanics. Results assessed present levels of drinking and problems, as well as the sociocultural environment surrounding alcohol use behavior among Blacks and Hispanics. The knowledge generated by these findings may impact the development and implementation of prevention strategies to minimize heavy drinking and alcohol problems among these two ethnic groups in the U.S.

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We are a non-profit research organization that seeks to improve public health through deepening our understanding of alcohol and other drug use and investigating innovative approaches to reduce its consequences for individuals, families, and communities.

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