NCJ Number
115760
Journal
International Journal of the Addictions Volume: 23 Issue: 10 Dated: (1988) Pages: 1011-1227
Date Published
1988
Length
17 pages
Annotation
This second part of a two-part study analyzes differences between Chicano and Anglo narcotics addicts by sex for each of five stages in the addiction career: pre-experimentation, experimentation, addiction, initial methadone maintenance (MM) treatment, and posttreatment.
Abstract
In Part I of the study, overall comparisons were made between 546 Chicano and Anglo male and female heroin addicts who had been clients of southern California MM programs in 1978. This second part of the study examined the sample for narcotic and other drug use, arrest, incarceration and legal supervision histories, criminal involvement, employment, interpersonal relationships, and treatment history. Whereas preaddiction differences between addicts paralleled ethnic differences in the general population, after addiction occurred, the similarities were greater than the dissimilarities between ethnic groups, except for Chicanos. Chicanos apparently continued to function as part of their community after addiction, but Chicanos risked becoming marginal. Treatment outcomes for Chicanos were, in general, less successful than for Anglos. 6 tables, 1 figure, 15 references. (Author abstract modified)