Lee Juliet P, Kirkpatrick Sean
Prevention Research Center, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, 1995 University Ave #450, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA.
J Ethn Subst Abuse. 2005;4(3-4):135-52. doi: 10.1300/J233v04n03_06.
The paper describes findings from a pilot study of drug use and environment for Southeast Asian youths in the San Francisco Bay Area. From interviews with 31 drug-involved youths living in two low-income predominantly ethnic minority neighborhoods, smoking marijuana emerged as pervasive and highly normative. Smoking marijuana provided a means for coping with the stresses of home and community life, and located youths, moreover, within an alternative ghetto lifestyle of rap music, marijuana smoking, and youth crime, as modeled by co-resident ethnic minority peers, with which many Southeast Asian youths identified. The findings indicate the importance of the social environment as well as social status in the substance use of this group of second-generation youth.
该论文描述了一项针对旧金山湾区东南亚青少年吸毒及环境的试点研究结果。通过对居住在两个低收入、主要为少数族裔社区的31名涉毒青少年的访谈发现，吸食大麻现象普遍且被高度认可。吸食大麻为应对家庭和社区生活压力提供了一种方式，此外，这些青少年还融入了一种由同住的少数族裔同龄人塑造的另类贫民区生活方式，包括说唱音乐、吸食大麻和青少年犯罪，许多东南亚青少年认同这种生活方式。研究结果表明了社会环境以及社会地位在这一第二代青少年群体药物使用中的重要性。
