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Study participants (<jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>=10,591) are African American, Hispanic, and white patients discharged from these programs, ages 18 or older, who reported alcohol as their primary substance abuse problem.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Study Design. <\/jats:bold> Bivariate tests identified racial and ethnic differences in rates of treatment completion and patient characteristics. Logistic regression models assessed the contribution of differences in patient characteristics to differences in completion.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Principal Findings. <\/jats:bold> Significantly lower completion rates by African Americans (17.5 percent) relative to whites (26.7 percent) (odds ratio [OR]=0.58, 95 percent confidence interval [CI]: 0.50\u20130.68) are partially explained (40 percent) by differences in patient characteristics in outpatient care (adjusted OR=0.75, 95 percent CI: 0.63\u20130.90), mostly by indicators of economic resources (i.e., employment, homelessness, and Medi\u2010Cal beneficiary). In residential care, only 7 percent of differences in completion (30.7 versus 46.1 percent) could be explained by the patient\u2010level measures available (OR=0.52, 95 percent CI: 0.45\u20130.59; AOR=0.55, 95 percent CI: 0.47\u20130.65). Differences in completion rates between Hispanic and white patients were not detected.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Conclusions. <\/jats:bold> Large differences in rates of outpatient and residential alcohol treatment completion between African American and white patients at publicly funded programs in LAC, the nation's second largest, publicly funded alcohol and drug treatment system, are partially because of economic differences among patients, but remain largely unexplained. 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