MEXICAN-AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN-AMERICAN RATINGS OF 4 ALCOHOLISM-TREATMENT PROGRAMS

Mexican American and European American community college students were surveyed to determine the models of addiction to which they subscribe d, their ratings of four alcoholism treatment programs, and, in the ca se of Mexican Americans, their scores on a measure of acculturation. M exican American participants rated all four alcoholism treatment progr ams as more effective than did European Americans. Models of addiction to which participants subscribed were not found to be related to eith er ethnicity or ratings of the four alcoholism treatments. Mexican Ame ricans who scored lowest on the acculturation scale gave the highest r atings for all four alcoholism treatment programs.