In the 2007 NSDUH, current (i.e., past 30 days) alcohol consumption was most prevalent among Whites (59.8 percent) and least prevalent among Asian Americans (38.0 percent). Native Americans/Alaskan Natives (47.8 percent), Hispanics (46.3 percent), and Blacks (43.8 percent) reported similar prevalence of any alcohol consumption (Chartier and Caetano 2010). In the NESARC Wave 1, the prevalence of current alcohol consumption was highest among Whites (63.5 percent), followed by Hispanics (60.3 percent) and Blacks (52.5 percent) (Caetano et al. 2010). However, the prevalence of weekly drinking (i.e., once per week or more) was higher among Hispanics (14.1 percent) than among Whites (13.6 percent) and Blacks (11.4 percent) in the same sample (Caetano et al. 2010).
