Spatial Epidemiology of Alcohol- and Drug-Related Health Problems Among Northern Plains American Indians: Nebraska and South Dakota, 2007 to 2012.
William R PonickiJeffrey A HendersonAndrew GaidusPaul J GruenewaldJuliet P LeeRoland S MooreSharice DavidsNick TilsenPublished in: Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research (2018)
In our analyses, ethnicity or heredity alone did not account for alcohol- and drug-related hospitalizations among Native populations. Aspects of social, economic, and political dimensions of Native lives must be considered in the etiology of alcohol- and drug-related problems for rural-dwelling indigenous peoples.