Overview
- New Encodat data show overall alcohol consumption in Mexico increased from 71% in 2016 to 73.7% in 2025, with female consumption rising from 62.6% to 69.3%.
- The survey also reports a decline in adolescent alcohol use nationwide, from 49.1% in 2016 to 46.1% in 2025.
- In Sonora, AA reports alcoholism remains concentrated among adults, with 31.68% of attendees aged 41 to 50 and about 1,000 active participants in 2024, 21% of them women.
- AA leaders in Sonora say more young people are arriving at AA groups and rehab centers for combined use of two or three substances rather than alcohol alone.
- AA’s Central Mexicana cites an extensive network of roughly 14,000 groups and over 110,000 members working with institutions such as IMSS, Conasama and Centros de Integración Juvenil.