Aims. To examine the effects of gender and acculturation on illicit drug use among the
Mexican‐origin population in California. Design. The 3012 subjects between 18 and 59 …

Substance abuse prevalence rates for Latinos/as generally mirror those of the general US
population; however, a number of indicators of assimilation to US culture as well as …

Abstract The Hispanic American population, the second largest and fastest growing minority
population in the United States, faces barriers to access to both medical health and mental …

New findings are presented from a survey of depressive symptoms, illicit drug use, and
suicidality among 4,157 adolescents attending school in six border cities in Texas and …

Hispanic sixth and seventh graders in 22 New York City middle schools (mean age: 12.66
years) completed self-report questionnaires with items related to drug use (cigarette …

Purpose: To explore the association between substance use in conjunction with sex and
unprotected anal sex among Colombian, Dominican, Mexican, and Puerto Rican men who …

This article reports on the associations between acculturation and substance use among
198 ninth-grade Southern California adolescents (mean age= 13.8 years). Substance use …

Genital human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is one of the most commonly diagnosed
sexually transmitted infections world-wide. Over the last two decades, research has …

This review of the epidemiology of drug use and drug dependence/abuse describes the
overall current pattern of use of mood-changing legal and illegal drugs based on the most …

In this article the authors conducted a critical review of ongoing and recently completed drug
abuse studies which have examined the importance of social support systems in the drug …