Table 3.

Drinking consequences at 3-year follow-up (adjusted for age, sex, White ethnicity, poverty, and conduct disorder) of abuse including and excluding hazardous use in 24,525 NESARC participants who report lifetime alcohol use but do not meet criteria for DSM-IV alcohol dependence.

	Endorsing (%)			Odds ratio [95% CI]
Variable	No abuse (n = 18,544)	Hazardous use (n = 5,415)	Excluding hazardous use (n = 566)	Hazardous use	Excluding hazardous use
Current drinker	69.5	79.3	75.6	1.30 [1.16, 1.45]	1.47 [1.09, 1.97]
12 drinks in past 12 months	51.6	68.9	67.5	1.56 [1.40, 1.74]	1.81 [1.38,2.37]
Daily drinking (SLI)	7.0	12.0	12.7	1.47 [1.27, 1.70]	1.95 [1.39,2.74]
Drank 5+/4+ drinks/day SLI	5.2	11.1	22.4	2.00 [1.73, 2.70]*	3.45 [2.64,4.51]*
Past-12-month weekly heavy episodic drinking	0.7	1.4	4.2	1.60 [1.07, 2.40]*	2.57 [1.50,4.40]*
Past-12-month weekly drank before 3 p.m.	2.0	4.1	7.1	1.63 [1.27,2.10]*	3.48 [2.24, 5.41]*
Past-12-month weekly drank after midnight	2.2	3.6	7.1	1.63 [1.29,2.06]	2.32 [1.48,3.66]
Past-12-month weekly drank alone	5.9	10.3	11.1	1.67 [1.44, 1.94]	2.15 [1.57,2.93]
Past-12-month weekly drank ≥2 occasions in a single day	1.1	1.8	3.5	1.57 [1.08, 2.27]*	3.02 [1.70,5.38]*
DSM-IV abuse SLI	5.4	18.5	17.5	3.46 [3.02, 3.97]	3.05 [2.25,4.14]
DSM-IV dependence SLI	2.7	6.8	13.0	1.96 [1.57, 2.45]*	2.89 [2.05, 4.07]*
Got help for drinking SLI	0.6	1.2	3.5	1.97 [1.30,2.99]*	5.17 [2.66,10.05]*

Notes: Odds ratios that do not include 1.0 in the 95% confidence interval (CI) are statistically significant. NESARC = National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions; DSM-IV = Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition; SLI = Since Last Interview measure.

^*Statistically different from each other in post hoc tests.