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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Psychiatry. 2010 Apr;167(4):473–474. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2009.09081087

Table 1.

Effect of Adding the Inmate Population to Household Prevalence and Population Estimates of the Prevalence of Past 12 Month DSM-IV Alcohol and Drug Use Disorders in U.S. Adults

Prevalence of Disorder
 Weighted Population Estimate of Individuals With a Disorder
(millions)
 Increase
From
Adding
Inmates
(Percent)
Household Population
 State Prison Population
 Federal Prison
Population
 Jail Population
 Household and Inmate
Population
 Household
Population		 State
Prison
Population		 Federal
Prison
Population		 Jail
Population		 Household
and Inmate
Population
DSM-IV Disorder Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE
Alcohol use disorder 8.5 0.24 44.3 0.72 36.3 1.35 46.6 0.78 8.8 0.55 17.580 0.523 0.052 0.302 18.457 5.0
Alcohol dependence 3.8 0.14 24.9 0.62 18.3 1.07 22.8 0.60 4.0 0.44 7.912 0.294 0.026 0.148 8.380 5.9
Alcohol abuse only 4.7 0.18 19,3 0.57 18.1 1.07 23.8 0.65 4.9 0.44 9.668 0.228 0.026 0.154 10.076 4.2
Drug use disorder 2.0 0.10 53.4 0.72 45.5 1.40 53.5 0.77 2.5 0.53 4.159 0.631 0.065 0.347 5.202 25.1
Drug dependence 0,6 0.05 36.1 0.69 28.7 1.27 35.8 0.77 0.9 0.50 1.301 0.426 0.041 0.232 2.001 53.8
Drug abuse only 1.4 0.08 17.3 0.54 16.8 1.03 17.7 0.59 1.6 0.40 2.858 0.204 0.024 0.115 3.201 12.0
a

U.S. household population is based on the 2001–2002 Wave 1 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions for residents of households and group quarters (N=43,093) (1); state prison population is based on 2004 drug use disorder data and 2005 alcohol use disorder data for a sample of state prison inmates (N=14,499) (5, 6); federal prison population is based on 2004 drug and alcohol use disorder data aggregated from separate estimates for federal prison inmates with and without mental disorders (N=3,686) (5, 6); and jail population is based on a 2002 survey of jail inmates (N=6,982) (4). Please see the on-line data supplement for additional methods.