Substance Use, Abuse & Treatment

Heath Studies and Gerontology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Waterloo, 2013

Summaries of a number of speeches on topics such as loss of Indian culture and values, problems with alcohol, a need to return to the old ways, etc.

Comments on the effects of unemployment.

Looks at attitudes towards evidence-based treatment programs in the San Francisco Bay area.

Bases on responses gathered from key informants and literature review.

Looks at partnership offering a holistic approach to Indigenous values and traditions and provide a community-based system of care for substance abuse and mental health.

Uses Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) Offender Intake Assessment (OIA) in conjunction with data from One-Day Snapshot of Inmates in Canada's Adult Correctional Facilities. Ratings for seven needs: employment, marital/family, association/socialization, substance abuse, community, personal/emotional, and attitude.

Social Work Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2020.

Comments on the high rate of American Indian and Alaska Native youth entering their childbearing years as teenagers and the importance of having substance abuse prevention strategies in place for these at risk teens.

Results of study suggest that strengthening identification with culture may help to reduce alcohol consumption. Responses to survey also challenge the stereotype that Indigenous students drink at higher rates than their non-Indigenous peers.

Reviews literature that may link HIV/AIDS to the legacy of residential schools. The article also outlines how HIV/AIDS is affecting the Aboriginal people and discusses the practices and challenges of attempting to combat the health issue.

Educational Psychology, Human Development Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 2015.

Systematically examines the theoretical underpinnings of historical trauma among Native Americans.

Comments on the curriculum, named Living in Two Worlds, based on the keeping it R-E-A-L (refuse, explain, and leave) repertoire.

Examines three Greenland community health promotion projects in the municipalities of Upernavik, Ittoqqortoorniit, and Qasigiannguit.

Addresses four major risk factors contributing to non-communicable diseases as tobacco use, inactivity, diet and alcohol abuse.

Gathers crime data and information from cases belonging to Athapascan villages in Alaska.

Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 1997.

Nursing Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Alaska Anchorage, 1999.

Social Work Thesis (MSW)--University of Regina, 2012.

Focuses on Aboriginal smoking initiation and presents a forum to examine cessation and prevention strategies. Also includes "A Community Comment" by Ron Sunshine, Treaty 8 Health Authority.

Study explores the underlying stress experiences of youth and looks at recommendations for program interventions.

Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Alliant International University, 2005.

Discusses family factors leading to binge drinking and supporting influences that helped individuals remain sober.

Examines links to self injury through discussions with 58 White Mountain Apache adolescents.

Identifies prevalent health priorities, requirements, and challenges of Mi'kmaq people by looking at three groups: First Nations community members, youth, and health system partners.

Study explores the factors that contribute to mental illness and its prevalence.

Six Indigenous and four non-Indigenous youth were interviewed about what they thought would improve chances of success.

Ethnographic study of 15 youth, aged 6 -17; uses Indigenous decolonizing framework to examine data collected through interviews with the youth to examine their views on and primary concerns related to health and well-being. Findings indicate that Winneway youth have a multidimensional understanding of health and well-being and view themselves as having agency; their concerns include “poor eating choices, difficulty expressing emotional and mental concerns, how children and youth treat others, and youth participation in unhealthy behaviours.”

Report combines information gathered from in-depth qualitative interviews in three case study communities and quantitative data about patterns of non-prescription substance use and non-insured health benefits prescribed medications.

Describes the Alberta portion of her three month trip to Canada and the United States evaluating First Nation social programming.

Continuing chronicle of author's travels in the United States.

Continuing chronicle of author's travels in the western United States touring Indian reservations.

Continuing chronicle of author's travels in the United States.

Website by local Prince Albert journalist contains links to ten part series on HIV and AIDS. Audio version available.

Nursing Thesis (M.N.)--The University of Manitoba, 1999.

Findings reveal that variance between individuals correlates with family financial status, school achievement and marijuana use.

Study identified psychosocial factors that may be associated with continued petrol sniffing among Aboriginal Australians.

Study examines the associations between culturally specific factors and current smoking off-reserve First Nations and Métis aged 15-17 years old compared to non-Indigenous Canadian youth.

Looks at ways underage smokers access contraband cigarettes and how to use this information for implementing tobacco control policies and activity programming.

States that the leading cause of death, within this particular group, for females was homicide and for males suicide or overdose.

Examines environmental and cultural factors related to successful functioning in a stratified random sample of 401 American Indian youths.

Public Health Sciences Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Toronto, 2004.

Social Work Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Calgary, 2006. Purpose of this study is to explore the experiences of five Aboriginal individuals who formerly used solvents and factors related to their transition to non-use.

Research summary of a study of an Innu school-based drug and alcohol prevention program intended to identify barriers and facilitators for substance use prevention strategies and education. Major barriers identified include: overloaded staff and difficulty scheduling training.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2006.

Looks at a performance artist who uses himself in museum installations.

Looks at the challenges First Nations women face to protect their health and the health of their children from second-hand smoke.