Cheung Y W
Prevention and Health Promotion Research and Development Department, Addiction Research Foundation, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Int J Addict. 1990;25(5A-6A):581-605. doi: 10.3109/10826089109077262.
Despite the large pool of research findings pertaining to ethnic and racial variations in the use of drugs (including alcohol), the relationship between ethnicity and drug use has not been thoroughly examined. This paper describes some of the major findings regarding ethnic and racial variations in drug use, and examines the methodological limitations of such studies. Moreover, this paper addresses the problem of shortage of theoretical explanations for ethnic variations in drug use. It is argued that the variable of ethnicity has not been properly conceptualized and measured in most studies. Cultural and structural aspects of ethnicity at both the individual and collective levels are examined, and their possible contributions to more rigorous research on the relationship between ethnicity and drug use are discussed.
尽管有大量关于不同种族和民族在药物（包括酒精）使用方面差异的研究结果，但种族与药物使用之间的关系尚未得到全面研究。本文描述了一些关于不同种族和民族在药物使用方面差异的主要研究结果，并审视了此类研究在方法上的局限性。此外，本文探讨了在解释不同种族在药物使用方面存在差异的理论依据不足的问题。文中指出，在大多数研究中，种族这一变量并未得到恰当的概念界定和衡量。本文考察了个体和集体层面种族的文化与结构层面，并讨论了它们对更严谨地研究种族与药物使用之间关系可能做出的贡献。
