A qualitative exploration of gender in the context of injection drug use in two US-Mexico border cities.

Injection drug use is of increasing concern along the U.S.-Mexico border where Tijuana and Ciudad (Cd.

Predictors of everyday functioning among older Mexican Americans vs. Anglo-Americans with schizophrenia.

Objective: We assessed clinical, demographic, and cognitive predictors of everyday functioning in Mexican American and Anglo-American outpatients with schizophrenia.

Method: Three groups of participants aged 40 years and over with a DSM-IV diagnosis of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder were compared: 79 Anglo-Americans, 24 Mexican American patients who chose to be tested in English, and 33 Mexican American patients who preferred Spanish. The study was conducted from October 2001 to July 2004.

"Vivo para consumirla y la consumo para vivir" ["I live to inject and inject to live"]: high-risk injection behaviors in Tijuana, Mexico.

Injection drug use is a growing problem on the US-Mexico border, where Tijuana is situated. We studied the context of injection drug use among injection drug users (IDUs) in Tijuana to help guide future research and interventions. Guided in-depth interviews were conducted with 10 male and 10 female current IDUs in Tijuana.

Functional adaptation skills training (FAST): a pilot psychosocial intervention study in middle-aged and older patients with chronic psychotic disorders.

Objective: Developing behavioral interventions to improve functioning of older patients with schizophrenia and other chronic psychoses has the potential to significantly increase the patients' independence and quality of life.

Methods: The authors evaluated a psychosocial intervention designed to improve everyday living skills of middle-aged and older outpatients with very chronic psychotic disorders (mean duration of illness: 21 years). Forty patients who resided in board-and-care facilities were randomly assigned to either a 24-session functional adaptation skills training (FAST) group therapy program targeting problem areas identified in previous work as being problematic for this population (e.