Overview of Selected Federal Efforts to Encourage Minority Drug Abuse Research and Researchers

This article contains three sections. The first part is a brief overview of National Institute on Drug Abuse’s (NIDA) ethnic minority research and research training efforts initiated between 1986 to 1991. The second part contains excerpts from a report entitled “Research Monograph: Drug Abuse Research Issues at Historically Black Colleges and Universities” submitted as a final contract deliverable to NIDA. The third part is a summary of the proceedings of a NIDA sponsored conference, entitled “Toward the Development of Ethnic Minority Drug Abuse Research and Researchers.”