We analyzed data from Wave 1 (W1) and Wave 2 (W2) of NESARC (Grant et al., 2007). The complex survey design permitted population-representative estimates of United States adults living in noninstitutionalized settings. In-person interviews for W1 were conducted with 43,093 respondents (81% of those targeted) during 2001–2002, with 34,653 reinterviewed in 2004–2005 (86.7% of W1 respondents). DSM-IV psychiatric disorders and related constructs were assessed with the Associated Disabilities Interview Schedule-IV (AUDADIS-IV; Grant et al., 2003). The methodology and participants of NESARC have been described elsewhere (Grant et al., 2003, 2004, 2009). To include a broad range of psychopathology without needing diagnostic subgroup analyses (e.g., alcohol abuse versus dependence), we analyzed data from respondents who met two or more criteria of the diagnosis of Alcohol Use Disorder in the DSM-5, the recently approved revision of the DSM nomenclature (Agrawal et al., 2011; Hasin et al., 2013) at any point in the first two of the three years between the W1 and W2 interviews (n = 3608). Hence, the sample criteria were consistent with the approved DSM-5 nomenclature with the exception that 2+ AUD symptoms could have occurred over a two-year (as opposed to a one-year) period.
