Given the discrepancy between NLAES and NESARC appears to be largely driven by the abuse category, we further decomposed abuse into its four criteria (i.e., role interference, hazardous use, legal problems, interpersonal problems). Lifetime and past-12 month prevalences for the individual abuse criteria are shown in Table 3. As seen in Table 3, prevalences for both lifetime and past-12 month abuse criteria tend to increase from NLAES to NESARC (with the exception of role interference). However, the largest discrepancy between the lifetime rates of abuse in NLAES and NESARC appears to be driven by the hazardous use criterion (4.41% in NLAES, 16.15% in NESARC for full sample; 6.68% in NLAES, 24.35% in NESARC for non-abstainers).
