Never drinkers were defined as those who had never had 12 drinks or more in their lifetime. Former drinkers were defined as those who had 12 drinks or more in their lifetime, but had not consumed alcohol in the past year. Current drinkers were defined as those who had consumed alcohol on at least 1 day in the past year. Annual drinking frequency was converted to weekly drinking frequency by dividing by 52. For the purposes of this study, we defined binge drinking as consuming 5 or more drinks on an occasion for both men and women. We dropped N=990 individuals (0.3% of total) from the analysis due to missing alcohol-related data.
