One-year incident rates of alcohol abuse and dependence in the NESARC Wave 2 sample varied little by race (Grant et al. 2009). However, this analysis did not include Native Americans or Asians because of small sample sizes. The only significant difference by race was that Blacks had significantly lower odds than Whites to report incident alcohol abuse (OR = 0.6) at Wave 2 of the NESARC, controlling for Wave 1 demographic characteristics and psychiatric disorders. No significant differences existed between Hispanics and Whites (OR = 0.8) (Grant et al. 2009).
