In supplemental analyses we assessed the association of alcohol self-medication of mood symptoms with incident alcohol abuse as well as incident alcohol dependence at follow-up (after exclusion of all baseline cases of both alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence). In these propensity score adjusted analyses, we found a similar overall association with drinking to self-medicate mood symptoms (AOR=3.04, CI=1.43-6.47, p=0.005); however, power was attenuated to complete the proposed stratified analyses.
