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This study found that middle-income adults (household income ranging from $50,000 to $149,999), serving as the reference group, generally exhibited a significant reduction in drug consumption during or after disaster events. However, compared to the middle-income group, White and Black adults with household income lower than $50,000 showed 142% and 88% more frequent drug use when experiencing storms/hurricanes. This disparity widened in the following weeks. Additionally, lower-income Hispanics showed 74% more frequent drug use compared to the middle-income group in the weeks following wildfire incidents. The study's findings shed light on the risk of drug misuse during the co-occurrence of climate and public health crises, emphasizing the disproportionate risk among lower-income racial/ethnic minorities amid the pandemic and natural disasters.</p>","PeriodicalId":16921,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"Heterogeneous Trajectories in Post-Disaster Drug Use Across Different Race/Ethnicity and Income Strata: Focus on Natural Hazards During COVID-19.\",\"authors\":\"Hyunjung Ji, Su Hyun Shin, HanNa Lim\",\"doi\":\"10.1007/s40615-024-02101-1\",\"DOIUrl\":null,\"url\":null,\"abstract\":\"<p><p>During the COVID-19 pandemic, climate-related natural hazards, such as wildfires, storms/hurricanes, and others (e.g., earthquakes, tornadoes), further disrupted the normal functioning of US residents. 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This disparity widened in the following weeks. Additionally, lower-income Hispanics showed 74% more frequent drug use compared to the middle-income group in the weeks following wildfire incidents. 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Heterogeneous Trajectories in Post-Disaster Drug Use Across Different Race/Ethnicity and Income Strata: Focus on Natural Hazards During COVID-19.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, climate-related natural hazards, such as wildfires, storms/hurricanes, and others (e.g., earthquakes, tornadoes), further disrupted the normal functioning of US residents. The co-occurrence of natural disasters and COVID-19 created unprecedentedly elevated levels of stress, especially to the racial/ethnic minorities and lower-income households. This study examines how natural disasters related to recreational drug use during COVID-19 and whether the relation is heterogeneous across different subgroups categorized by race/ethnicity and household income. This study used the data from the biweekly online surveys of the Understanding America Study (UAS) and analyzed the drug use behaviors of 966 US adults between April 29 and December 31, 2020. This study found that middle-income adults (household income ranging from $50,000 to $149,999), serving as the reference group, generally exhibited a significant reduction in drug consumption during or after disaster events. However, compared to the middle-income group, White and Black adults with household income lower than $50,000 showed 142% and 88% more frequent drug use when experiencing storms/hurricanes. This disparity widened in the following weeks. Additionally, lower-income Hispanics showed 74% more frequent drug use compared to the middle-income group in the weeks following wildfire incidents. The study's findings shed light on the risk of drug misuse during the co-occurrence of climate and public health crises, emphasizing the disproportionate risk among lower-income racial/ethnic minorities amid the pandemic and natural disasters.
期刊介绍:
Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities reports on the scholarly progress of work to understand, address, and ultimately eliminate health disparities based on race and ethnicity. Efforts to explore underlying causes of health disparities and to describe interventions that have been undertaken to address racial and ethnic health disparities are featured. Promising studies that are ongoing or studies that have longer term data are welcome, as are studies that serve as lessons for best practices in eliminating health disparities. Original research, systematic reviews, and commentaries presenting the state-of-the-art thinking on problems centered on health disparities will be considered for publication. We particularly encourage review articles that generate innovative and testable ideas, and constructive discussions and/or critiques of health disparities.Because the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities receives a large number of submissions, about 30% of submissions to the Journal are sent out for full peer review.