Community Influence on Youth's Use of Inhalants and Other Legal Products to Get High in Rural Alaska.

This study examines the use of inhalants and other harmful legal products (HLPs) to get high among pre-adolescents in frontier Alaska communities. Community factors that may influence use of HLPs are highlighted. This study uses secondary data from two NIH studies in 19 Alaska communities.

Inupiaq Elders study: aspects of aging among male and female elders.

Objectives: To determine if age and gender subsets of Inupiaq Elders living in urban and rural locations present different characteristics of self-reported health, physical and mental functioning, functioning of daily activities, body mass index, nutrient intake and food insecurity.

Study Design: Quantitative, comparative survey of 100 Inupiaq Elders, 52 living in 2 north-western Alaska communities, and 48 living in Anchorage. All participants were community-dwelling, non-institutionalized individuals.

Preventing youths' use of inhalants and other harmful legal products in frontier Alaskan communities: a randomized trial.

This study tests for the efficacy of a school-based drug prevention curriculum (Think Smart) that was designed to reduce use of Harmful Legal Products (HLPs, such as inhalants and over-the-counter drugs), alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs among fifth- and sixth-grade students in frontier Alaska. The curriculum consisted of 12 core sessions and 3 booster sessions administered 2 to 3 months later, and was an adaptation of the Schinke life skills training curriculum for Native Americans. Fourteen communities, which represented a mixture of Caucasian and Alaska Native populations in various regions of the state, were randomly assigned to intervention or control conditions.

The use of harmful legal products among pre-adolescent Alaskan students.

Objectives: This study examined pre-adolescent use of harmful but legally obtainable products (HLPs) "in order to get high" in 4 communities in northwest and southeast Alaska. These products include inhalants, over-the-counter medications, prescription medications taken without a doctor's prescription and common household products.

Study Design: Cross-sectional survey.

A community prevention intervention to reduce youth from inhaling and ingesting harmful legal products.

Youth use of harmful legal products, including inhaling or ingesting everyday household products, prescription drugs, and over-the-counter drugs, constitutes a growing health problem for American society. As such, a single targeted approach to preventing such a drug problem in a community is unlikely to be sufficient to reduce use and abuse at the youth population level. Therefore, the primary focus of this article is on an innovative, comprehensive, community-based prevention intervention.

Social transition in the north: comparisons of drug-taking behavior among Alaska and Russian natives.

Objectives: This study represents a continuation of the work initiated by the "Social Transition in the North" (STN) project. This research extends the findings from earlier reports, specifically focusing on comparisons of drug-taking behavior among Alaska and Siberian Eskimos; it is one of the first studies that obtained substance abuse data from Russian Natives in eastern Russian.

Study Design: The data were taken from the STN study was collected in two regions of Alaska (Northwest Arctic and the Aleutian Islands) and in two regions of the Russian Far East (Kamchatka and Chukotka).

The preliminary assessment of the Social Transition in the North dataset: a comparison of STN survey and enumeration data for selected Northwest Alaskan communities.

Objective: This study compared the results from STN survey data with a mailback health study of the same communities to assess the reliability of the STN data. STUDY DESIGN. Sample characteristics and respondes to health questions were compared through secondary data analysis.