Social work professor's family-centered program reduces alcohol use

For the past 10 years, Catherine O’Connor, a professor in the Tulane University School of Social Work, has spent countless evenings with members of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. 

The evenings always began with meals consisting of traditional foods like hominy, fry bread and beans. But the gatherings were more than dinner. They were part of a research effort aimed at reducing alcohol misuse in the Choctaw community.