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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Addiction. 2011 May 6;106(7):1251–1260. doi: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2011.03408.x

Table 3.

Percentage of AUD, heavy, and normative drinkers among all current drinkers compared to participants with 0.08 g/dL or greater BACs (percentages weighted)

Current Drinkers with any BAC (n=4684) Current Drinkers with BAC ≥0.08 (n=133) P (α=0.05)
Type of Drinker
 Dependent (n=335)a 7.15 7.20 0.98
 Abusive (n=318) 6.81 6.03 0.72
 Heavy (n=499) 10.01 32.54 <0.01
 Normative (n=3503) 75.39 54.24 <0.01
*

Dependent drinkers who also met abuse criteria were only classified as dependent, consistent with DSM criteria.