Chunk #13 — Materials and methods — Measures — Alcohol dependence

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Intersection of familial risk and environmental social control on high-risk drinking and alcohol dependence in a US national sample of adults.

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Alcohol dependence was measured by 17 items based on DSM-IV criteria (American Psychiatric Association, 1994) validated in prior NAS data (Caetano & Tam, 1995). A dichotomous variable indicated whether respondents reported at least one symptom in three or more of the seven criteria domains in the past year.6