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Native Americans are often represented in the media as drinking far more excessively than other racial and ethnic groups in the United States — but new research shatters that damaging stereotype.
Native Americans’ binge-drinking habits are on par with those of white people, according to a study by researchers at the University of Arizona. What’s more, the study also found that Native Americans are more likely than white people to abstain from drinking alcohol.
To reach their findings, the researchers examined data on 4,000 Native Americans and 170,000 white people between 2009 and 2013 — originally collected as part of a survey by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, according to Science Daily. They also looked at a survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention measuring how many times Native Americans and white people had drunk excessively in the past month.
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