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Salud Pública de México
versión impresa ISSN 0036-3634
Resumen
BORGES, Guilherme et al. Drug use on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Salud pública Méx [online]. 2018, vol.60, n.4, pp.451-461. ISSN 0036-3634. https://doi.org/10.21149/8603.
Objective
To compare drug use for cities along the US-Mexico border.
Materials and methods
Data are from the US-Mexico Study on Alcohol and Related Conditions (UMSARC, 2011-2013), a survey of 4 796 randomly selected Mexican and of Mexican origin individuals on both sides of the border.
Results
Higher rates of any past-year drug use and symptoms of drug use disorders were found only in the border city of Laredo, when compared to the non-border city of San Antonio. Nuevo Laredo and Reynosa/Matamoros showed higher rates of drug use than the non-border city of Monterrey. Much higher rates (OR’s in the range of 4-11) were found in the US cities when compared to their across-the-border Mexican counterparts.
Conclusions
Drug use is high on the border for the selected Mexican cities. Misuse of prescription drugs is nevertheless a concern in the south Texas border cities in our study.
Palabras llave : Mexican Americans; border health; epidemiology; survey; drug use.