Current (occurring in the past-year) and past (in participant’s lifetime prior to past-year) alcohol abuse and dependence criteria were assessed with the NIAAA Alcohol Use Disorders and Associated Disabilities Interview Schedule-version for DSM IV (AUDADIS-IV; Grant et al., 2001). The AUDADIS-IV has well-established validity (Grant et al., 1995, 2003b) and additional information on NESARC survey methods is available elsewhere (Grant et al., 2003a). We created three outcomes to reflect transitions in AUD status across waves: AUD remission, AUD onset, and AUD recurrence. Transition outcomes were assessed as a proportion of those at risk rather than a proportion of the total population. That is, participants were only included in analyses of: (a) AUD remission if they met the criteria for current AUD at Wave I (those unaffected at Wave II were coded as remitted = 1, all others = 0), (b) AUD onset if they were unaffected for both past and current AUD at Wave I (those affected at Wave II were coded as onset = 1, all others = 0), and (c) AUD recurrence if they met criteria for past
