title: Co-occurring alcohol, drug, and other psychiatric disorders among Mexican-origin people in the United States.
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-occurring disorders involving substances. Cobormidity is expected to increase in the Mexican-origin population owing to acculturation effects of both sexes.
authors.affiliation: Behavioral Research and Training Institute, University Behavioral Health Care, University of Medicine and Dentistry-New Jersey, and the Department of Psychiatry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA. vegawa@umdnj.edu
authors.forename: William A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Vega
authors.forename: William M
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Sribney
authors.forename: Ijeoma
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Achara-Abrahams
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications / Q000208:ethnology; D002140:California / Q000453:epidemiology; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D015897:Comorbidity; D017831:Diagnosis, Dual (Psychiatry); D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000208:ethnology*; D017058:Mexican Americans / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008875:Middle Aged; D015995:Prevalence; D012423:Rural Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000208:ethnology*; D014504:Urban Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data