04/01/2008

Sociology Professor Awarded $2.6 Million Grant For Study on Drug Use by African American Females

Carrie Oser, a professor in the Department of Sociology, has been awarded a five year $2.6 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) entitled “African American Female Drug Users: HIV, Health Disparities, and Criminality.” 

The overall goal of this study is to understand how drug use and criminality are related to health disparities, particularly HIV, and service utilization among African American drug using and non-drug using women across criminal justice status (i.e., prison, jail, probation, and non-offenders in the community).

The significance of this study includes the potential to provide criminal justice systems-level data for health planning and health policy for prevention, intervention, and treatment of African American female drug users.