Presentar las estimaciones de prevalencia de depresión, así como el porcentaje de individuos que han sido médicamente diagnosticados. Material y métodos. La definición de episodio de depresión se basó en una cé_dula con ...

The purpose of this article is to review the research status of illicit drug use and its data sources in Latin America, with particular attention to the research that has been produced in the past 15 years in epidemiology ...

The authors show associations between immigration and alcohol disorders using data from the 1995 and 2000 U.S. National Alcohol Surveys and the 1998 Mexico National Household Survey on Addictions. The prevalence of alcohol ...

Anonymous surveys have been widely used worldwide to describe adolescent substance use yet cannot elucidate causal drug abuse predictors. Studies in the U.S. have generally found that anonymous and confidential surveys ...

Codependence as a relational problem that often, but not necessarily always, occurs in conjunction with familial alcoholism. Previous research has shown that various etiological factors resulting from recurring stressful ...

Los trastornos mentales, incluyendo los trastornos del uso de sustancias, hacen ya parte del panorama epidemiológico de México y seguirán en el escenario nacional por las próximas décadas, incrementando incluso su presencia ...

Aims: While alcohol use is thought to be a major risk factor for both fatal and non-fatal injuries, the association of substance use disorders (alcohol use disorders, AUD and substance use disorders, SUD) with occurrence ...