Socioeconomic factors associated with drug consumption in Mexico

Víctor Gerardo Carreón-Rodríguez, Profesor Asociado del Laboratorio Nacional de Políticas Públicas del CIDE, Armando Nevárez-Sida y Marcelo Bergman escribieron el artículo Socioeconomic factors associated with drug consumption in Mexico en la revista Economics Bulletin.

 

Abstract

 

Background

Illicit drug consumption in Mexico has been growing constantly and has begun to be a public health problem. The aim of this study is to identify the principal characteristics and socioeconomic variables associated with consumption of illegal drugs in Mexico.

 

Methods

Using information from the 2016 national addictions survey in Mexico, we develop a logistic regression model to determine the variables associated with drug consumption, sometime in lifetime or recently, in the general population of Mexico.

 

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