Native Americans and Alcoholism.

Alcohol Abuse and Native Americans: A Result of Colonialism, A Call for the Restoration of Justice Alcoholism is a disease. This disease plagues the Native American population in America to an astonishing degree. "Alcohol affects Native Americans disproportionately; the 1992-1994 age-adjusted alcoholism mortality rate for Native Americans is approximately 6 times the 1993 rate for the US population as a whole" [Frank344] Philip A. May states in his essay "The Epidemiology of Alcohol Abuse": "That alcoholism is …

…of the reservation is imperative. If they remain socially and geographically isolated, the negative conditioning patterns that have been instilled in them by settlers will only worsen; so will their drinking. Alcoholism is a disease with massive potential for destructive force; the Native American is now, and has been, the victim. It is a time for change. Eradicating most of the alcohol problem in the Native American community is the beginning of the solution.