Differences in the way the hazardous use criterion was operationalized led to a substantial discrepancy between the results of two population studies of the impact of DSM-5 criteria on the prevalence of alcohol abuse (Agrawal et al., 2011; Mewton et al. 2011). Taking the differences in definition of the criterion into account resulted in similar prevalence differences in these studies (Agrawal et al., 2011). The two SSADDA questions used to identify the presence of hazardous use in the present study differ slightly from the questions used to ascertain hazardous use in other studies. This limits the comparison of the results reported here with those from previous studies.
