Co-Occurring Alcohol, Drug, and Other Psychiatric Disorders among Mexican-Origin People in the United States Article

Vega, WA, Sribney, WM, Achara-Abrahams, I. (2003). Co-Occurring Alcohol, Drug, and Other Psychiatric Disorders among Mexican-Origin People in the United States . AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, 93(7), 1057-1064. 10.2105/AJPH.93.7.1057

cited authors

  • Vega, WA; Sribney, WM; Achara-Abrahams, I

authors

abstract

  • We examined co-occurrence of (comorbid) alcohol, drug, and non-substance use psychiatric disorders in a population sample of Mexican-origin adults from rural and urban areas of central California. Co-occurring lifetime rates of alcohol or other drug disorders with non-substance use psychiatric disorders, or both, were 8.3% for men and 5.5% for women and were 12.3% for the US born and 3.5% for immigrants. Alcohol abuse or dependence with co-occurring psychiatric disorders is a primary disorder among Mexican-origin adult males (7.5% lifetime prevalence). US-born men and women are almost equally likely to have co-occuring disorders involving substances. Cobormidity is expected to increase in the Mexican-origin population owing to acculturation effects of both sexes.

publication date

  • January 1, 2003

published in

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start page

  • 1057

end page

  • 1064

volume

  • 93

issue

  • 7