Article: Racial discrimination-induced anger and alcohol use among Black adolescents.

Alcohol continues to be the most common form of drug used among America's youth (Clark & Scheid, 2002). Based on data provided in the Office of Applied Studies, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA, 2006) 2004 report by the National Household Survey of Drug Abuse (NHSDA), an estimated 7.6% of individuals between 12 to 17 years of age had consumed alcohol during the previous month. The NHSDA data further indicated that males had a higher rate of alcohol consumption than females and that 7.9% of the White population compared to 6.5% of the Black population within this age range had consumed some form of alcohol within the past 30 days at the ...

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