Research relative to the drinking behavior of minority youth, as well as alcohol-abuse prevention programs for these youth, have been largely neglected. Moreover, the existing data on both of these subjects are limited in that they either treat minority youth as a homogeneous entity or apply a white middle-class curriculum to prevention activity. This paper examines several alcohol-education protocols within schools and how these strategies present unique problems to prevention programs for minority youth. Curricula derived from the developmental and the socio-cultural models appear most applicable to minorities.
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