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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Feb 9.
Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2015 Feb 9;39(2):363–370. doi: 10.1111/acer.12627

Table 3.

Symptoms reported by past-year drinkers who retained their AUD classification, those who were reclassified as non-AUD, and those who were never classified as having an AUD

Symptom domains Still have AUD (n=45) Reclassified as no AUD (n=7) Never had AUD (n=173)
Withdrawal (uncorrected %) 84.8 71.4 20.2
Withdrawal (corrected %) 48.9 0 4.0

More/longer than intended (uncorrected %) 46.7 57.1 1.7
More/longer than intended (corrected %) 28.9 0 0.6

Craving (%) 77.8 42.9 6.9
Use despite social/interpersonal problems (%) 71.1 42.9 6.4
Tolerance (%) 40.0 14.3 2.3
Desire/efforts to cut down/control (%) 33.3 0 1.2
Use despite physical/psychological problems (%) 26.7 0 0
Giving up important activities (%) 24.4 0 0
Time spent to obtain/use/recover (%) 8.9 0 0
Failure to fulfill role obligations (%) 2.2 0 0
Drinking in hazardous situations (%) 2.2 0 0

Mean # domains endorsed (uncorrected %) 3.7 2.0 0.2
Mean # domains endorsed (corrected %) 3.5 1.0 0.2