Substance abuse research among racial, ethnic, and sexual minority populations historically
has lagged behind that conducted with majority samples. However, interesting and
potentially important advances in prevention, brief interventions, and treatment have been
made in the last few years, at least among some minority populations, such as American
Indian youth. New prevention efforts have focused on point-of-sale interventions for alcohol,
as well as on family-unit interventions designed with subpopulation cultural values in mind …