Fayez Mahamid, Priscilla Chou, Samaneh Sadeghi Hafshejani, Maryam Mokhtari Dinani, Nikolay Bokhan, Dana Bdier, Ivan V Voevodin, Gordon Flett, Audrene Kerr-Brown, Maxim Zangeneh
{"title":"COVID-19 anxiety predicts loneliness among university students: the mediating roles of mattering, fear of not mattering, and anti-mattering.","authors":"Fayez Mahamid, Priscilla Chou, Samaneh Sadeghi Hafshejani, Maryam Mokhtari Dinani, Nikolay Bokhan, Dana Bdier, Ivan V Voevodin, Gordon Flett, Audrene Kerr-Brown, Maxim Zangeneh","doi":"10.1080/15332640.2025.2494228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15332640.2025.2494228","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The current study evaluated the association between COVID-19 anxiety and loneliness among university students, as well as to investigate whether mattering, anti-mattering, and fear of not mediate this association. The study involved 450 university students from Canada, Russia, and Iran, consisting of 390 women and 60 men. Results of the correlational analysis, revealed that COVID-19 anxiety was positively correlated with loneliness (<i>r</i> = .48, <i>p < .01</i>), anti-mattering (<i>r</i> = .44, <i>p < .01</i>), and fear of not mattering (<i>r</i> = .46<i>, p < .01</i>), and negatively correlated with mattering (<i>r</i> = -0.20, <i>p < .01</i>). Conversely, mattering was negatively correlated with anti-mattering (<i>r</i> = -0.44, <i>p < .01</i>), and fear of not mattering (<i>r</i> = -0.23, <i>p < .01</i>). Regarding mediation analysis, the findings revealed that mattering, anti-mattering, and fear of not mattering mediated the association between COVID-19 anxiety and loneliness among university students. The results of the current study highlight the importance of enhancing individuals' sense of mattering as a protective factor that can reduce the impact of psychological stress and anxiety associated with pandemic and the likelihood of engaging in maladaptive behaviors. This can prevent individuals from engaging in maladaptive behaviors, such as loneliness, addiction, and the use of negative coping strategies to deal with stressful events.</p>","PeriodicalId":15812,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144023403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hannah Knipp, Kristi Kàapu, Catherine E O'Connor, Arthur W Blume
{"title":"COVID-19-related effects on alcohol and other Drug use among indigenous peoples.","authors":"Hannah Knipp, Kristi Kàapu, Catherine E O'Connor, Arthur W Blume","doi":"10.1080/15332640.2025.2493142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15332640.2025.2493142","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Indigenous peoples in the United States have been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 global pandemic. Using the framework for historical oppression, resilience, and transcendence (FHORT), the present research study recounted the lived experiences of a group of 31 Indigenous women from a tribe located in the southeastern region of the United States regarding alcohol and other drug (AOD) use during the COVID-19 pandemic. Three major themes emerged from interviews: (a) no change or decreased AOD use, (b) increased AOD use, and (c) reasons for AOD use. Participant accounts of AOD use during the COVID-19 pandemic were multidirectional and complex, reflecting a rich diversity of experience.</p>","PeriodicalId":15812,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse","volume":" ","pages":"1-27"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144021572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The lived experiences of women in recovery from substance use disorders: a qualitative study on social and recovery capital.","authors":"Mehrangiz Shoaa Kazemi, Fatemeh Mohammadi, Fayez Mahamid, Bilal Hamamra","doi":"10.1080/15332640.2025.2495137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15332640.2025.2495137","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recovery from substance use disorders entails an array of internal and external capacities that enable individuals to initiate and sustain the journey toward wellness. This study aimed to explore the lived experiences of women who have recovered from drug use, focusing specifically on the role of social capital and recovery capital. Employing Corbin and Strauss's grounded theory (2015), the study involved in-depth interviews with a purposively sampled group of 15 female participants in Tehran who had maintained sobriety for approximately five years and were actively leading stable lives. Data analysis revealed a central concept, three primary themes and six subthemes. Recovery capital in these women's lives encompassed aspects such as positive and negative attitudes, family support, social connections, management of loneliness and social rejection, occupational and financial stability, satisfaction with recovery, peer group affiliations, a sense of belonging, emotional release, and emotion management. The findings indicate that sustainable recovery is most achievable in the presence of strong family support, a non-judgmental work environment, and minimal exposure to blame, humiliation, or social rejection. These protective factors collectively diminish the likelihood of relapse. Participants who were employed and married demonstrated greater recovery capital and social capital, highlighting the role of these social structures in enhancing recovery.</p>","PeriodicalId":15812,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144010867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fiona Gorman, Nicholas Gorman, Jefferson Wood, Laura Hoyt D'Anna
{"title":"Changes in substance use among young Black men who have sex with men during COVID-19 pandemic.","authors":"Fiona Gorman, Nicholas Gorman, Jefferson Wood, Laura Hoyt D'Anna","doi":"10.1080/15332640.2025.2486603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15332640.2025.2486603","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examines substance use behaviors and sociodemographic characteristics during the COVID-19 lockdown among young Black men who have sex with men (YBMSM) in California. Using data from the PPOWER<sup>2</sup> intervention, 132 participants completed surveys from February 2020 to September 2021. Pre-pandemic, 70% reported marijuana use, and 60% reported alcohol use. During the lockdown, increased tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and other drug use were reported, attributed to boredom and anxiety. Despite limited personal COVID-19 experiences, participants avoided exposure and delayed medical/dental care. Ongoing monitoring is necessary to understand whether substance use rates remain elevated or have returned to pre-pandemic levels.</p>","PeriodicalId":15812,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143803483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Umit Shrestha, Sarah E Boland, Caitlin Howley, Nicole D Reed, Nicole R Tuitt, Nancy L Asdigian, Sheana Bull, Michelle C Sarche, Carol E Kaufman
{"title":"Centering culture in an mHealth adaptation of an alcohol-exposed pregnancy prevention program for American Indian Youth.","authors":"Umit Shrestha, Sarah E Boland, Caitlin Howley, Nicole D Reed, Nicole R Tuitt, Nancy L Asdigian, Sheana Bull, Michelle C Sarche, Carol E Kaufman","doi":"10.1080/15332640.2023.2223160","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15332640.2023.2223160","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Native WYSE CHOICES adapted an Alcohol Exposed Pregnancy (AEP) prevention curriculum for mobile health delivery for young urban American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) women. This qualitative study explored the relevance of culture in adapting a health intervention with a national sample of urban AIAN youth. In total, the team conducted 29 interviews across three iterative rounds. Participants expressed interest in receiving culturally informed health interventions, were open to cultural elements from other AIAN tribes, and highlighted the importance of culture in their lives. The study underscores why community voices are central in tailoring health interventions for this population.</p>","PeriodicalId":15812,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse","volume":" ","pages":"310-326"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10158909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Serge R Wandji, Demetrius A Abshire, Jean E Davis, Abbas S Tavakoli, Robert Pope
{"title":"Substance use disorders among African-American men in the rural south: A scoping review.","authors":"Serge R Wandji, Demetrius A Abshire, Jean E Davis, Abbas S Tavakoli, Robert Pope","doi":"10.1080/15332640.2023.2248029","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15332640.2023.2248029","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>African American (AA) men in the rural South may be at high risk for experiencing adverse health outcomes from substance use (SU). We conducted a scoping review to explore the research on SU among rural AA men in the rural South of the United States (US). Ten articles addressed the following thematic areas pertaining to SU: factors associated with SU (<i>n</i> = 6), associations between substance use and health outcomes (<i>n</i> = 2), and the influence of impulsivity on SU (<i>n</i> = 2). Additional research on SU among AA men in the rural South is needed, particularly pertaining to treatment-related considerations.</p>","PeriodicalId":15812,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse","volume":" ","pages":"327-352"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10129973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial.","authors":"Masood Zangeneh","doi":"10.1080/15332640.2025.2490430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15332640.2025.2490430","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15812,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse","volume":"24 2","pages":"273-275"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144004821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jih-Cheng Yeh, Bharathy Premachandra, Neil A Lewis, Jeff Niederdeppe, David H Jernigan
{"title":"Identities, drinking behaviors and cancer beliefs among African-American and White American adults: A qualitative analysis.","authors":"Jih-Cheng Yeh, Bharathy Premachandra, Neil A Lewis, Jeff Niederdeppe, David H Jernigan","doi":"10.1080/15332640.2023.2232738","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15332640.2023.2232738","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Alcohol consumption is causally linked to multiple cancers. African-Americans are at greater risk of cancer than other demographic groups and suffer more serious consequences. Awareness and knowledge of the alcohol-cancer link are low, especially among African-Americans compared to other racial/ethnic groups. This study built on the theory of identity-based motivation (TIBM) to explore how people think about alcohol consumption in relation to their social identities and beliefs about cancer.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data come from 20 in-depth interviews with current drinkers (10 White and 10 African-American adults) in a major mid-Atlantic city in the summer of 2021, using race- and gender-concordant interviewers. An abductive and iterative approach identified salient themes about how drinkers thought about alcohol, social identities, and cancer.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>While most participants discussed alcohol use as an important part of American culture, African-American participants were more likely to discuss drinking as a way to cope with racism and other hardships. Participants also noted the need to address structural issues that would make it difficult to cut back on drinking. Both White and African-American participants talked about stressors in life that drive them to drink and make cutting back difficult, and African-American participants discussed how the location of liquor stores in their neighborhoods made alcohol too readily available.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Insights from these interviews confirm the relevance of racial and other identities in shaping responses to alcohol-cancer messaging, and emphasize the need to consider both behavior change and policy change to create supportive environments for such changes.</p>","PeriodicalId":15812,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse","volume":" ","pages":"479-500"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10129494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A study on the social contract conditional reasoning of male substance abusers during detoxification.","authors":"Xiaoqing Zeng, Shicheng Song, Meirong Chen","doi":"10.1080/15332640.2023.2215708","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15332640.2023.2215708","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous studies on social contract reasoning of male substance abusers only examined individuals who are using drugs, and most of them compared social contract and nonsocial contract reasoning, and paid less attention to the characteristics of social contract reasoning of substance abusers during withdrawal. In addition, there is little research on the difference between the standard social contract rules and the switched social contract rules. To further explore this issue, experiment 1 examined the differences between 110 male substance abusers' conditional reasoning for descriptive and social contract rules; Experiment 2 examined the differences between 110 other male substance abusers' conditional reasoning for standard and switched social contracts. Results: (1) for male substance abusers, the performance of social contract conditional reasoning is significantly better than descriptive conditional reasoning; (2) the performance of standard social contract rules is significantly better than that of switched social contract rules.</p>","PeriodicalId":15812,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse","volume":" ","pages":"590-605"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9559793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mark Hanson, Konstantinos Zougris, Orlando Garcia-Santiago
{"title":"Contextualizing drug use and pharmacological harm in the United States: a socio-historical overview.","authors":"Mark Hanson, Konstantinos Zougris, Orlando Garcia-Santiago","doi":"10.1080/15332640.2023.2224743","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15332640.2023.2224743","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this conceptual paper is to navigate through the socio-historical modulations in American tolerance for different psychoactive substances, and propose a theoretical synthesis formed by two vanguard philosophical doctrines, objectivism, and constructivism. Our approach is grounded on the analysis of social historical context and objective harms that have influenced drug use tolerance in the United States based on key historical events such as: heavy drinking at the dawn of nineteenth century, the establishment and repeal of prohibition, late nineteenth century opiate and cocaine tolerance followed by early twentieth century prohibition, post-prohibition drug concerns such as marijuana prohibition in the 1930s, heroin concerns and medical depressant use in the 1950s, poly-drug use in the 1960s, crack cocaine use in the 1980s, and finally modulations in tolerance for peyote use. Evidence supports the notion of drug harms reduction for the privileged, and criminalization of drug use by marginalized groups. Over long spans of history, however, more objectively harmful drugs are rejected, while drugs that can be used regularly without serous dysfunction are tolerated and normalized. We argue that a framework of social status and pharmacological harm can account for the vacillating policy responses that have emerged to different drugs at different times. Our approach informs the role of socio-cultural conflict in drug policy development and infuse the need for empirical research on the effect of socioeconomic positioning on attitudes of medicalization and legalization of marijuana and opioid policy in contemporary America.</p>","PeriodicalId":15812,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse","volume":" ","pages":"450-478"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10063389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}