The Mexican migration to the United States and substance use in northern Mexico

Addiction

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 603-611

  Borges, Guilherme ^a   Medina Mora, Maria Elena ^a   Orozco, Ricardo ^b   Fleiz, Clara ^a   Cherpitel, Cheryl ^c   Breslau, Joshua ^d  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PSIQUIATRÍA RAMÓN DE LA FUENTE MUÑIZ   (Mexico)

^b Secretaria de Salvo   (Mexico)

^c ALCOHOL RESEARCH GROUP   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Drug use; Epidemiology; Hispanic; Mexico; Migration; Risk factor

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 62649112467     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2008.02491.x     Document Type: Article

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