Where Is the Opioid Use Epidemic in Mexico? A Cautionary Tale for Policymakers South of the US–Mexico Border
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In North America, opioid use and its harms have increased in the United States and Canada over the past 2 decades. However, Mexico has yet to document patterns suggesting a higher level of opioid use or attendant harms. Historically, Mexico has been a country with low-level use of opioids, although heroin use has been documented. Low-level opioid use is likely attributable to structural, cultural, and individual factors. However, a range of dynamic factors may be converging to increase the use of opioids: legislative changes to opioid prescribing, national health insurance coverage of opioids, pressure from the pharmaceutical industry, changing demographics and disease burden, forced migration and its trauma, and an increase in the production and trafficking of heroin. In addition, harm-reduction services are scarce. Mexico may transition from a country of low opioid use to high opioid use but has the opportunity to respond effectively through a combination of targeted public health surveillance of high-risk groups, preparation of appropriate infrastructure to support evidence-based treatment, and interventions and policies to avoid a widespread opioid use epidemic
Drug · Environmental health · Geography · Harm · Harm reduction · Heroin · Legislature · Opioid · Opioid use disorder · Political science · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Public health · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Medicine · Opioid Use Disorder Treatment · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
Examining the gender composition of drug injecting initiation events
Responding to the opioid crisis in North America and beyond
Exploring potential underestimates in fatal overdose mortality across major metropolitan areas in Mexico between 2005 and 2019
Risk of non‐fatal overdose and polysubstance use in a longitudinal study with people who inject drugs in Tijuana, Mexico
Sex differences in the multilevel determinants of injection risk behaviours among people who inject drugs in Tijuana, Mexico
Investigating a bidirectional relationship between overdose and provision of injection initiation assistance among persons who inject drugs in Vancouver, Canada and Tijuana, Mexico
The introduction of fentanyl on the US–Mexico border
Spatial Heterogeneity in Fatal Overdose Rate Trends in Mexican Cities
Making sense of implementation theories, models and frameworks
Alleviating the access abyss in palliative care and pain relief—an imperative of universal health coverage
Historical trends in the production and consumption of illicit drugs in Mexico
Mexico's Evolving HIV Epidemic
Increases in Drug and Opioid Overdose Deaths — United States, 2000–2014
Global, Regional, and National Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life-years for 32 Cancer Groups, 1990 to 2015
Epidemiology of Substance Use among Forced Migrants
Deportation Along the U.S.–Mexico Border
Common Mental Disorders at the Time of Deportation
Opioid analgesics and heroin
Negotiating access
Prescription opioid misuse in the United States and the United Kingdom
Mexico's drug policy reform
Health-damaging policing practices among persons who inject drugs in Mexico
The Textures of Heroin
A Qualitative View of Drug Use Behaviors of Mexican Male Injection Drug Users Deported from the United States
Anomic depression and the migrating family
U.S. immigration policy and family separation
Attempts to Undermine Tobacco Control
The Promotion and Marketing of OxyContin
Deported Mexican migrants
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