Substance Use in Minnesota

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The following sites are recommended for additional information. This list is by no means all-inclusive.

By Topic | By Location | By Demographic

By Topic

Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs:

• Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) Resources and Material
• http://www.samhsa.gov/Matrix/matrix_prevention.aspx
• http://www.carnevaleassociates.com/CA_IB-SAMHSA_SPF_Overview.pdf
• http://prevention.samhsa.gov/about/spf.aspx
• Community ATOD Indicators Handbook http://www.indicatorshandbook.org/indicators/
• Guide to Community Preventive Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.thecommunityguide.org/
• Communities That Care Community Planning System, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. https://preventionplatform.samhsa.gov/Macro/CSAP/dss_portal/Templates_redesign/start.cfm
• Community Chemical Health Check, Chemical Health Community Health Promotion Guide. http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/hpcd/chp/hpkit/text/ch_main.htm
• Drug Abuse Trends in Minneapolis/St. Paul, June 2008. http://www.dhs.state.mn.us/main/groups/disabilities/documents/pub/dhs16_141573.pdf

Alcohol:

• International Institute for Alcohol Awareness – State Profiles http://www.iiaaonline.org/profiles.php
• Minnesota Department of Public Safety – Office of Traffic Safety – Safe & Sober Campaign – Crash Data and Reports http://www.dps.state.mn.us/OTS/crashdata/default.asp
• Alcohol Related Disease Impact (ARDI), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/ardi/Homepage.aspx
• Fatality Analysis Reporting System Information http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/
• Human and Economic Cost of Alcohol Use Fact Sheet http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/hpcd/chp/alcohol/pdf/final2004costfactsheet.pdf
• Alcohol Policy Information System http://www.alcoholpolicy.niaaa.nih.gov/index.asp

Tobacco:

• American Indian Community Tobacco Project http://www.epi.umn.edu/research/aictp/publications.shtm
• Association for Nonsmokers Minnesota – Tobacco-Free Recreation Policies http://www.ansrmn.org/tfyr_mn_policies.htm
• Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Morbidity, and Economic Costs (SAMMEC), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/sammec/
• Tobacco Use in Minnesota: Perspectives from Latino Communities. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Comunidades Latinas Unidas en Servicio, Minnesota Partnership for Action against Tobacco, March 2006 http://www.preventionminnesota.com/objects/pdfs/Latino_FullReport_Final.pdf
• Executive Summary, Tobacco Use in Minnesota: Perspectives from Cambodian, Hmong, Laotian, and Vietnamese Communities. Asian Pacific Tobacco-Free Coalition of Minnesota, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Minnesota Partnership for Action Against Tobacco, Southeast Asian Refugee Community Home, March 2006. http://www.cancerplanmn.org/sites/528d17b0-2c73-45c9-894d-872fc0beac4e/uploads/SEAsianExecSummary.pdf
• Reducing Tobacco Use Among Pregnant American Indian Women Grant # RC 2002-0007, Minnesota Partnership for Action Against Tobacco, Indigenous People’s Task Force. http://www.communityresearchworks.com/Toolbox/CommunityBasedResearch/Community_Research_Report.pdf
• Creating an Effective Tobacco Plan for Minnesota’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Communities. Rainbow Health Initiative, December 2005. http://www.rainbowhealth.org/images/glbt-report.pdf
• Minnesota African American Tobacco Education Network http://www.state.mn.us/portal/mn/jsp/content.do?id=-536887961&agency=CBM
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. November 14, 2008/Vol. 57/No.45: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5745.pdf

Other Drugs:

• Office of National Drug Control Policy – State and Local Profiles – Minnesota http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/statelocal/mn/index.html
• The Meth Project: National Use & Attitudes Survey 2007. GFK Roper Public Affairs and Media. http://www.methproject.org/documents/National_Survey817.pdf
• MN Department of Corrections http://www.corr.state.mn.us/
• National Survey on Drug Use and Health http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/nhsda.htm

By Location

State Level:

• Annie E. Casey Foundation: Kids Count Data Center – Profiles by Geographic Area – Minnesota http://www.kidscount.org/datacenter/profile_results.jsp?r=25&d=1
• International Institute for Alcohol Awareness – State Profiles http://www.iiaaonline.org/profiles.php
• Minnesota Department of Public Safety – Office of Traffic Safety – Safe & Sober Campaign – Crash Data and Reports http://www.dps.state.mn.us/OTS/crashdata/default.asp
• Office of National Drug Control Policy – State and Local Profiles – Minnesota http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/statelocal/mn/index.html
• Atlas of Minnesota Online Edition, Social and Economic Characteristics of the North Star State. Center for Rural Policy and Development. http://www.mnsu.edu/ruralmn/pages/Publications/Atlas/Atlasonline/Safety2005/mappagessafety/safety00.htm
• Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Information http://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/sci_data/surveys/brfs/type_txt/brfs2.asp
• Uniform Crime Reports http://www.bca.state.mn.us/CJIS/Documents/Page-15-02.html
• Minnesota Survey of Adult Substance Use, Minnesota Department of Human Services, 2006. http://www.dhs.state.mn.us/main/idcplg?IdcService=GET_FILE&RevisionSelectionMethod=LatestReleased&Rendition=Primary
• CDC Wonder. http://wonder.cdc.gov/

Regional Level

• Drug Abuse Trends in Minneapolis/St. Paul, June 2008. http://www.dhs.state.mn.us/main/groups/disabilities/documents/pub/dhs16_141573.pdf

County Level:

• Minnesota County Health Tables http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/chs/countytables/profiles2006/index.html
• Minnesota Department of Administration—Office of Geographic and Demographic Analysis—Minnesota County Health Profiles http://www.lmic.state.mn.us/datanetweb/health.html
• Minnesota Student Survey state- and county-level results. http://cfl.state.mn.us/MDE/Learning_Support/Safe_and_Healthy_Learners/Minnesota_Student_Survey/index.html
• SHAPE 2002: Racial and Ethnic Data Book, Survey of the Health of Adults, the Population, and the Environment (Hennepin County). http://wwwa.co.hennepin.mn.us/images/HCInternet/Static%20Files/100088817RacialEthnicDatabook20030423.pdf

By Demographic

Youth:

• SNAPSHOTS on Minnesota Youth. http://www.ojp.state.mn.us/newsletters/snapshots/2007-09.htm

Race/Ethnicity:

• Speaking for Themselves: A survey of Hispanic, Hmong, Russian, and Somali immigrants in Minneapolis-Saint Paul (2000) from the Wilder Research Center http://www.nfg.org/otherpubs/SpeakingForThemselves.pdf
• International Institute of Minnesota http://iimn.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={82EA0CF9-200B-4561-AEA0-224F40F2810D}
• Minnesota International Center http://www.micglobe.org/
• Tobacco Use in Minnesota: Perspectives from Latino Communities. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Comunidades Latinas Unidas en Servicio, Minnesota Partnership for Action against Tobacco, March 2006 http://www.preventionminnesota.com/objects/pdfs/Latino_FullReport_Final.pdf
• Populations of Color Health Status Report, Minnesota Department of Health. http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/chs/POC/
• SHAPE 2002: Racial and Ethnic Data Book, Survey of the Health of Adults, the Population, and the Environment. http://wwwa.co.hennepin.mn.us/images/HCInternet/Static%20Files/100088817RacialEthnicDatabook20030423.pdf

African-American

• Minnesota African American Tobacco Education Network http://www.state.mn.us/portal/mn/jsp/content.do?id=-536887961&agency=CBM
• African American Community Epi Profile http://www.sumn.org/downloads/African American Community Epi Profile.doc

American Indian/Alaska Native:

• American Indian SUMN Fact Sheet http://www.sumn.org/downloads/American Indian SUMN Fact Sheet.pdf
• American Indian/Alaska Native Community Epi Profile http://docs.sumn.org/AmericanIndianCommunityEpiProfile1.doc
• American Indian Community Tobacco Project http://www.epi.umn.edu/research/aictp/publications.shtm
• Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center http://www.miwrc.org/resources.html
• Reducing Tobacco Use Among Pregnant American Indian Women Grant # RC 2002-0007, Minnesota Partnership for Action Against Tobacco, Indigenous People’s Task Force. http://www.communityresearchworks.com/Toolbox/CommunityBasedResearch/Community_Research_Report.pdf
• Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Epidemiology Center. http://www.glitc.org/epicenter/index.html

Hispanic/Latino:

• Communidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio – CLUES – Latino Resource Center http://www.clues.org/lrc_pages/lrc.htm
• Hispanic/Latino Community Epi Profile http://docs.sumn.org/HispanicLatinoCommunityEpiProfile.doc

Hmong:

• Hmong Cultural Center http://www.hmongcenter.org/

Somali:

• Minnesota’s Population Continues to Become More Diverse from the Department of Administration, Office of Geographic and Demographic Analysis, State of Minnesota (2005). http://server.admin.state.mn.us/resource.html?Id=10959

Asian/Pacific Islander:

• Asian/Pacific Islander Community Epi Profile http://docs.sumn.org/AsianPacificIslanderCommunityEpiProfile.doc
• Executive Summary, Tobacco Use in Minnesota: Perspectives from Cambodian, Hmong, Laotian, and Vietnamese Communities. Asian Pacific Tobacco-Free Coalition of Minnesota, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Minnesota Partnership for Action Against Tobacco, Southeast Asian Refugee Community Home, March 2006. http://www.cancerplanmn.org/sites/528d17b0-2c73-45c9-894d-872fc0beac4e/uploads/SEAsianExecSummary.pdf

GLBT:

• Creating an Effective Tobacco Plan for Minnesota’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Communities. Rainbow Health Initiative, December 2005. http://www.rainbowhealth.org/images/glbt-report.pdf
• Alcohol, Tobacco & Other Drug Problems & Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Individuals http://www.nalgap.org/PDF/Resources/LGBT.pdf