%0 Journal Article
%T Under-Researched Demographics: Heavy Episodic Drinking and Alcohol-Related Problems Among Asian Americans
%A Aylin Kaya
%A Derek Kenji Iwamoto
%A Lauren Clinton
%A Margaux Grivel
%J Archive of "Alcohol Research : Current Reviews".
%D 2016
%X Historically, Asian Americans have reported lower rates of alcohol misuse compared with other racial/ethnic groups (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration 2009; Wechsler et al. 2000). However, epidemiological data illustrates that heavy episodic drinking and alcohol abuse are significant and increasing among U.S.-born Asian-American young adults ages 18¨C25 (Grant et al. 2004). Within one decade alone, the prevalence of alcohol abuse increased fivefold among Asian Americans, from 0.74 percent in 1991¨C1992 to 3.89 percent in 2001¨C2002 (Grant et al. 2004). Moreover, recent studies have identified high-risk subgroups of Asian-American young adults who engage in higher rates of heavy episodic drinking compared with their Asian-American peers (Iwamoto et al. 2010). Additionally, some U.S.-born Asian-American ethnic subgroups may engage in heavy episodic drinking at comparable rates to high-risk groups (e.g., college fraternity members) in the general population (Iwamoto et al. 2011b). Despite this growing concern, Asian Americans are perceived as a low-risk group with respect to alcohol problems, partially because of the ˇ°model minorityˇ± myth and the stereotype of Asian Americans generally being well assimilated to U.S. culture, being financially and academically successful, and with low levels of psychological distress (Gupta et al. 2011)
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4872609/