Racial Disparities in Alcohol Use: Comparison of 2 American Indian Reservation Populations With National Data

Abstract

American Indian alcohol use has received scrutiny in recent decades,1 but data derived from samples that permit direct comparisons to other US epidemiological studies have been less commonly reported.2–4 This brief places rates of the quantity and frequency of alcohol use in 2 tribally defined reservation samples in such a comparative epidemiological context.