Culturally Specific Youth Substance Abuse Resistance Skills: Applicability across the U.S.-Mexico Border.

This study tests the applicability among adolescents in Mexico of the keepin' it REAL (refuse, explain, avoid, and leave) strategies that are common and effective ways that U.S. youth resist substance use.

[Descriptive study of drug use among adolescents in higher middle education in Monterrey, Nueva León, Mexico].

We aimed to establish the consumption profile of licit and illicit drugs, consumption patterns and strategies for coping and resisting alcohol, tobacco and other drugs among adolescents in higher middle education. This study was based on concepts developed by specialized authors and considered the subject's behavioral, psychological and normative characteristics. The non-probabilistic sample consisted of 325 adolescents.