Several studies have examined US ethnic subgroups of Asian, Hispanic, and Native Americans. Using data from the 1991–1992 NLAES to examine Asian American subgroups, Price et al.17 reported lifetime DSM-IV alcohol dependence was 12.8% in Japanese (n = 314), 10.1% in Filipino (n = 185), 9.7% in Korean (n = 123), 4.5% in Chinese (n = 230), and 3.4% in Vietnamese (n = 89) adults. The finding that Koreans were twice as likely to have lifetime dependence as Chinese is consistent with results in a college student sample that found 10% of Chinese (n = 179), 20% of Korean (n = 194), and 33% of White (n = 305) college students had a lifetime DSM-IV AUD18. Using NSDUH data from 1999–2002, Sakai et al.19 found that among US lifetime alcohol users, past-year DSM-IV dependence was approximately 4% in full (single race) Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders, 3% in Koreans, 2% in Indians, Japanese, and Vietnamese, and 1% in Chinese and Filipinos, with higher prevalence in those who indicated multiple races compared with single race for Filipinos and Native Hawaiians. In
