In analyses of NESARC data, alcohol consumption and AUD most commonly have been investigated in five U.S. Census–defined racial/ethnic groups: Whites, Blacks, Native Americans, Asians, and Hispanics. The NSDUH uses the same racial/ethnic categories, with the addition of respondents reporting two or more races, because over time, individuals are increasingly endorsing more than one race, indicating a growing population of people identifying as biracial or multiracial (Hirschman et al. 2000; Jones and Bullock 2012).
