Forging Connections to Reduce Substance Abuse [PsychCentral.com]

Samantha Sangenito 4/25/164:00 AM

A new study has found that interventions designed to increase connections to non-drug-using family and friends, the faith community, education and employment are the best ways to reduce substance abuse among African-Americans and other minorities in low-income, resource-poor communities.

The study focused on locations within the Arkansas Mississippi Delta, a region characterized by strained race relations, a stagnant economy, high unemployment, low incomes, and high emigration, and where the population is predominantly African Americans living in poverty.

[For more of this story, written by Janice Wood, go to http://psychcentral.com/news/2...ce-abuse/102182.html]

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