Funding for this podcast comes from Math Works, creators of Mat Lab and Simulink software,

accelerating the pace of engineering and science. Learn more at Math Works.

Come. Support for this podcast comes from Is Business Broken?

A podcast from Questram School of Business.

Stick around until the end of this podcast

for a preview of the first episode.

A conversation with Dean Susan Fournier, where she

answers the question at the heart of the show.

This is on point.

I'm Magnichak Rabardi.

When Americans think about Mexico and illegal drugs,

the story often begins and ends with Mexico's key role

in drug trafficking into the United States. Rarely do we think of how Mexicans themselves are suffering from the scourge of drug abuse.

Though the data are hard to come by, and historically, drug abuse in Mexico seems to have been at much lower

rates than in the United States, the problem in Mexico is growing.

For example, a 2016 national survey found that 10% of Mexicans had reported having tried an illegal

substance, up from 7% in 2011.

Moreover, synthetic drugs, the same ones hurting and killing so many people in the United States, are up in Mexico too.

In 2016, 15% of users at government treatment centers sought help for meth addiction.

By 2021, that number had soared to 36%.

With that rapid growth rate, just as it's difficult to pin down exactly the extent of Mexico's

addiction problems, it's also hard to know exactly if there are enough of those government treatment centers that I just mentioned.

...