The Mexican drug war: Homicides and deaths of despair, 2000-2020.

Abhery Das¹, Eileen Lee², Devoja Ganguli³, Tim A Bruckner⁴

¹Division of Health Policy & Administration, School of Public Health, University of Illinois Chicago, United States. Electronic address: abhery@uic.edu.

²AMBOSS Inc, United States.

³Division of Health Policy & Administration, School of Public Health, University of Illinois Chicago, United States.

⁴Department of Health, Society & Behavior, Joe C. Wen School of Population and Public Health, University of California, Irvine, United States; Center for Population, Inequality, and Policy, University of California, Irvine, United States.

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Abstract

OBJECTIVES: In 2006, the Mexican government deployed their army on Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTOs). The attempt to remove cartel leaders spurred further conflict between DTOs and led to substantial increases in Mexico's homicide rate. The public display of homicide victims and the media coverage of violence may have elicited feelings of fear and depression, increasing the risk of deaths of d…

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