{"id":43161,"date":"2015-10-11T02:37:07","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T02:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43161"},"modified":"2015-10-11T02:37:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T02:37:07","slug":"in-fact-theres-no-evidence-that-native-americans-are-more-biologically-susceptible-to-substance-use-disorders-than-any-other-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43161","title":{"rendered":"In fact, there\u2019s no evidence that Native Americans are more biologically susceptible to substance use disorders than any other group&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In fact, there\u2019s no evidence that Native Americans are more biologically susceptible to substance use disorders than any other group, says <a href=\"http:\/\/gonetowar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Gone<\/a>, associate professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. American Indians don\u2019t metabolize or react to alcohol differently than whites do, and they don\u2019t have higher prevalence of any known risk genes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maiasz\" target=\"_blank\">Maia Szalavitz<\/a>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43150\" target=\"_blank\">No, Native Americans aren\u2019t genetically more susceptible to alcoholism<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Verge<\/em>, October 2, 2015. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/10\/2\/9428659\/firewater-racist-myth-alcoholism-native-americans\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/10\/2\/9428659\/firewater-racist-myth-alcoholism-native-americans<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In fact, there\u2019s no evidence that Native Americans are more biologically susceptible to substance use disorders than any other group, says Joseph Gone, associate professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. American Indians don\u2019t metabolize or react to alcohol differently than whites do, and they don\u2019t have higher prevalence of any known risk genes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21362,21363,21360,21361],"class_list":["post-43161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-joseph-gone","tag-joseph-p-gone","tag-maia-szalavitz","tag-the-verge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43162,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43161\/revisions\/43162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}