$3M NIH grant to UIC to study lesbian drinking
Silly me, I thought lesbians drank for the same reasons as everybody else.
Apparently they don't drink because they are thirsty, need to relax, unwind, or maybe lesbians just like the cute little umbrellas in pina coladas. I hope $3,000,000.00 is enough to figure this out. I wonder if they will need to pay lesbians to drink?
The UIC College of Nursing has received a $3 million federal grant to continue research to identify risk factors for excessive drinking among lesbians. The five-year study, led by Tonda Hughes, professor of health systems science, will examine how stressful experiences -- childhood sexual abuse, adult sexual assault and discrimination based on ethnicity or sexual orientation -- are related to psychological harm and hazardous drinking in adult women, a release from UIC said.
Data will be collected from a diverse sample of 384 adult lesbians in the area who were previously interviewed by Hughes and her research team in 2000 and 2004. Another 250 new subjects -- 18 to 25 years old and of African-American and Hispanic descent -- will also be interviewed. The results of the study, Hughes said, will be used to understand how women cope with stress. The group will be compared with heterosexual urban and suburban women in the National Study of Health and Life Experiences of Women, a 20-year longitudinal study of more than 1,600 women.
Silly me, I thought lesbians drank for the same reasons as everybody else.