Joseph Friedman, Morgan Godvin, Caitlin Molina, Ruby Romero, Annick Borquez, Tucker Avra, David Goodman-Meza, Steffanie Strathdee, Philippe Bourgois, Chelsea L Shover
BACKGROUND: Our ethnographic team has conducted longitudinal research focused on illicit drug markets in Northern Mexico since 2018. In 2021-2022, study participants described the arrival of new, unusually potent tablets sold as ostensibly controlled substances, without a prescription, directly from pharmacies that cater to US tourists. Concurrently, fentanyl- and methamphetamine-based counterfeit prescription drugs have driven escalating overdose death rates in the US, however their presence in Mexico has not been assessed...
January 28, 2023: medRxiv