Undocumented Immigration, Drug Problems, and Driving Under the Influence in the United States, 1990-2014.
Objectives. To examine the influence of undocumented immigration in the United States on 4 different metrics of drug and alcohol problems: drug arrests, drug overdose fatalities, driving under the influence (DUI) arrests, and DUI deaths. Methods. We combined newly developed state-level estimates of...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Public Health Vol. 107; no. 9; pp. 1448 - 1455 |
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