Information on which the AUD criteria were based came from diagnostic interviews in the context of a high risk family study, and thus was not subject to the underreporting of alcohol use and related behaviors noted in DUI samples in court-ordered settings. A study which examined the accuracy of alcohol diagnosis in DUI offenders found a 20.1% rate of alcohol dependence during DUI-related screening; 5 years later this rate was 60.1% based on interviews with the same offenders which queried the same time frame as the previous screening (Lapham et al., 2004). In the current study, 81.3% of DUI offenders met alcohol dependence criteria, consistent with an accurate reporting of symptoms and with high rates of AUD symptoms in other high-risk samples (Hill et al., 2010; Strong et al., 2010).
