Dear Group, As a historian I feel woefully inadequate when it comes to what scientists, anthropologists, etc. have said about the subject of alcohol addiction. I know that Mexican temperance reformers in the 1920s and 30s believed that indigenous and working-class people drank more than others, and they believed that science validated their ideas. But my question is: what do modern scienticists say about this? Is there any propensity to consume alcohol based on class or ethnicity? It seems highly prejudiced to me, but I could be wrong. Any good works that you could point me to? Thanks, Gretchen Gretchen Pierce Adjunct Instructor Indiana University Northwest Ph.D. Candidate University of Arizona