Table 5.

Alcohol Use and Alcohol Problems among Current Drinkers who Reported that Past Year Alcohol Withdrawal Did or Did Not Cause Distress or Impairment in Social, Occupational, or Other Important Areas of Functioning. Values are medians (interquartile ranges) for continuous variables. For nominal variable (detoxification) values are percentages (confidence interval).

Alcohol Use and Problem Variables	No Impairment (n=1324)	Impairment (n=522)	Wald F (df=1,65)	Wald F adjusted for any Axis I disorder
Alcohol Symptom Count past year	1.41 (0.27–2.96)	4.05 (1.65–6.52)	227.75*	194.45*
Max drinks lifetime	8.98 (5.05–14.26)	11.47 (7.01–17.92)	26.81*	22.72*
Max drinks past year	7.50 (4.40–11.91)	9.54 (5.34–14.73)	13.50*	11.20*
Avg. drinks/occasion past year	3.41 (1.93–5.55)	4.42 (2.37–6.54)	17.76*	15.52*
Binge drinking days past year	14.80 (0.71–80.16)	45.09 (5.35–163.26)	34.63*	30.70*
% Detoxification Treatment past year	0.59 (0.26–1.35)	7.86 (5.27–11.55)	32.62*	24.33*

Note:

^*p < .008