Table 1 provides the endorsement rates of ever use and the seven dependence symptoms for alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine in subgroups defined by sex and sample (that is, MTFS males, MTFS females, SAGE males, and SAGE females). For both the MTFS and SAGE samples, males endorsed criteria a median of twice as frequently as females, and this pattern was consistent across substances. SAGE participants endorsed dependence symptoms a median of three times as frequently as MTFS participants (comparing across samples within sexes). Between-sample differences in symptom endorsement rates varied more greatly by substance (compared to the relative consistency across substances observed when examining endorsement rates by sex). In particular, cocaine symptoms showed the greatest difference between SAGE and MTFS samples, due in part to similar disparities in endorsement rates of having ever used cocaine.
