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In their article on substance use among Mexican-American youth, Chavez and Swaim' argue that "there are impor- tant differences in the drug use of sub- groups of Hispanics and that there are substantial gaps in our knowledge of both the epidemiology and etiology of Hispanic substance use. The current study ad- dresses one of the important gaps by pre- senting normative data on substance use among 8thand 12th-grade Mexican-American youth. Mexican-American (MA) youth are compared with White non-Hispanic (WnH) youth residing in the same communities." The use of race or ethnicity as an independent variable in public health research, where Chavez and Swaim's study fits this criterion, deserves some remarks.
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