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The proportion of drug abuse users that develop dependence does not represent the totality of users. Therefore, there is a substantial proportion of users that do not develop a substance use disorder (SUD). For example, in Mexico...

Catherine Bradshaw, Kathan D. Shukla, Tracy E. Waasdorp, Sarah Lindstrom Johnson, Mercedes Gabriela Orozco Solis, Amanda J. Nguyen, Cecilia Colunga Rodriguez

Introduction: School climate is an important construct for guiding violence...

Ietza Bojorquez, Rosa M Aguilera-Guzman, Adrian Aguilera, Silvia Mejia

Introduction: Deportations of Mexican migrants who had been living in the United States for extended periods of time increased during the past decade. As an event of...

Louis D Brown, Rebecca Wells, Alexia A. Wilson, Sarah Meyer Chilenski

Introduction: Illegal drug use rose 87% from 2002 to 2011 in Mexico. To help address this problem, 19 substance use prevention coalitions were organized across Mexico...

Stephanie Ayers, Flavio F. Marsiglia, Stephen S. Kulis, Paul Smokowski, Anaid Gonzalvez

The rise and spread of violence in Mexico is an urgent concern given its unsettling, widespread and accelerating impact on communities. Experiencing...

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Introduction: Certain child rearing practices are associated with severe behavioral problems in children.

Objective: To assess the relationship between child rearing practices and severe behavioral problems in children.

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Mexico’s 2009 “narcomenudeo reform” decriminalized small amounts of drugs, shifting some drug law enforcement to the states and mandating drug treatment diversion instead of incarceration. Data from Tijuana suggested...

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When discussing the public health approach to the use of marijuana, the complexity of rigorous regulatory interventions for population protection is omitted. Using the experience of governments where these practices already exist...

The integration of different sources of biological information about what defines a behavioral phenotype is difficult to unify in an entity that reflects the arithmetic sum of its individual parts. In this sense, the challenge of Systems...

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Introduction: The use of solvent inhalants has been documented in Mexico since the 1970s. Nevertheless, very little is known about the distribution and use dynamics among “street children”. Few have ventured to study this issue...

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Background: The endocannabinoid system (eCBs) is one of the modulatory systems widely expressed in the brain. It consists of receptors expressed in the cytoplasmic (CB1 and CB2), the mitochondrial membrane (CB1), and the...

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Introduction: Marijuana use among the student population has increased in Mexico and Latin America. There are social, interpersonal and individual factors associated with the onset and continuation of marijuana use. These include...

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Despite the accumulation of scientific evidence confirming the health consequences of smoking and the new paradigm of smoking as a disease where nicotine is the drug that modifies the functional and morphological characteristics of...

The Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST), developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), has been used successfully in many countries, but there are few studies of its validity and reliability for the...

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Background: The use of reliable and valid self-report questionnaires to identify drug use disorders (DUD) is a strategy that has shown usefulness for screening. One of the instruments more used for detection is the Drug Abuse...