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Garcia, Victor – Journal of Rural Health, 2007
To help in understanding the manner in which community, individual, and other factors in the United States and Mexico contribute to drug use among transnational migrants, this paper introduces a binational social ecology model of substance abuse in this population. We draw on our 2 NIH-funded ethnographic studies--1 on problem drinking and the…
Descriptors: Subcultures, Drug Abuse, Ethnography, Drug Use
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Spence, Richard T.; Wallisch, Lynn S. – Journal of Rural Health, 2007
Context: Little is known about substance use and treatment utilization in rural communities of the United States/Mexico border. Purpose: To compare substance use and need and desire for treatment in rural colonias and urban areas of the border. Methods: Interviews were conducted in 2002-2003 with a random sample of adults living in the lower Rio…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Drug Use, Drinking, Rural Areas