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Alcohol consumption, alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence. The United States as an example
Author(s) -
GRANT BRIDGET F.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0965-2140
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1994.tb03730.x
Subject(s) - alcohol , alcohol consumption , alcohol abuse , environmental health , poison control , injury prevention , suicide prevention , human factors and ergonomics , consumption (sociology) , medicine , psychiatry , psychology , chemistry , sociology , organic chemistry , social science
This paper presents national estimates of alcohol consumption and DSM‐IV alcohol abuse and dependence in the United States, Fifty‐nao percent of the adults surveyed were classified as current drinkers and nearly 9.0% met criteria for DSM‐IV akohol abuse or dependence. Greater percentages of males and whiles were classified as current drinkers and as alcohol abusers or dependent, compared with females and non‐whites., respectively. There is a need for future epidemiological research to collect belter data on drinking patterns as an aid to interpreting socio‐demographic differentials and to estimate more precisely the association between alcohol consumption and abuse and dependence in multivariate statistical environments. The critical need to examine the unprecedented reversal of the abuse‐to‐dependence ratio resulting from the application of the DSM.‐IV classification is emphasized. The role of future longitudinal alcohol epidemiological research in elucidating the initiation and maintenance of consumption patterns and alcohol use disorders is stressed.