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Black individuals face unique structural and psychosocial stressors, including racism-related stress, that shape mental health and substance use trajectories in ways not adequately captured by static or retrospective assessments. In this study, we want to understand variation in substance use and problems (focused primarily on alcohol and cannabis use) within the broader context of general..

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Neural reward processing measures have been shown to predict substance use and mental health, but are not well-characterized in Black populations. Yet, the unique structural and psychosocial stressors of Black Americans are likely to affect reward processing itself. The goal of this study is to recruit Black folks who regularly use alcohol or cannabis to..

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