Patterns of Drug Use among Mexican Americans

1 January 1972

journal article
Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of the Addictions

Vol. 7 (4) , 637-647
https://doi.org/10.3109/10826087209028117

Abstract

In this study, patterns of drug use were compared for Mexican American and Anglo narcotic addicts. The Mexican Americans showed much less experimentation in their drug use, with the most typical pattern being first marijuana and then heroin use. These differences are maintained when medical use, social class, and prior delinquency histories are controlled. A speculative hypothesis for these findings concerns cultural differences in the perception of the value of the drugs.

Keywords

MEXICAN AMERICANS
DRUG USE
SPECULATIVE
MARIJUANA
EXPERIMENTATION
PRIOR
DELINQUENCY
HEROIN

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Narcotics, Negroes and the South
Social Forces, 1966
Two Patterns of Narcotic Drug Addiction in the United States
The Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science, 1965