Issue Encyclopedia · Guideline G · Alcohol
Continued Use After Treatment
Does continued use after treatment affect a security clearance?
Basis: 622 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.
Decided cases
626
hearing-level decisions raising this issue
Granted
19%
118 granted · 504 denied or revoked
Official mitigating conditions cited
| Condition | In granted cases | In denied cases |
|---|---|---|
| ¶ 23(b) · The pattern acknowledged, with modified use or abstinence established | 42 | 10 |
| ¶ 23(a) · So much time has passed, or the incidents were so infrequent | 26 | 3 |
| ¶ 23(c) · In counseling or treatment, with satisfactory progress | 19 | 3 |
| ¶ 23(d) · Treatment and aftercare completed, with abstinence established | 17 | 1 |
¶ 23(b) · The pattern acknowledged, with modified use or abstinence established
- In granted cases
- 42
- In denied cases
- 10
¶ 23(a) · So much time has passed, or the incidents were so infrequent
- In granted cases
- 26
- In denied cases
- 3
¶ 23(c) · In counseling or treatment, with satisfactory progress
- In granted cases
- 19
- In denied cases
- 3
¶ 23(d) · Treatment and aftercare completed, with abstinence established
- In granted cases
- 17
- In denied cases
- 1
Circumstances credited in granted cases
- abstinence period documented · credited in 7 granted cases
- rehabilitation evidence · credited in 2 granted cases
Recent decided examples
The Appeal Board affirmed the Judge’s grant of eligibility. DoD had raised Guideline E and Guideline G concerns based on Applicant’s long history of alcohol misuse, relapse after stating he would stop…
In this written-record DOHA case, the Applicant, a 49-year-old defense contractor employee, admitted allegations of long-term alcohol misuse, including intoxication, later resumption of drinking, a ps…
The case involves an applicant seeking a security clearance who faced allegations under multiple guidelines, including alcohol consumption, drug involvement, criminal conduct, and personal conduct. Th…
The case involves an applicant seeking security clearance who faced allegations under Guidelines I, G, and E, primarily related to psychological conditions, alcohol consumption, and personal conduct. …
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How these numbers are measured
Scope: decided hearing-level cases whose per-allegation profile records this issue, matched to the same issue value the search filters use, so a count here and a filtered search always agree. A case raising several issues counts under each one. The mitigating conditions and the credited circumstances below were extracted for a subset of the record, so both are counts of cases rather than rates. Pages exist only for issues with at least 25 decided cases, and † marks any split built on fewer than 20.
Reading the statistics
- Granted = access granted or continued; Denied = denied or revoked.
- Grant rate = granted ÷ (granted + denied).
- † marks figures based on fewer than 20 cases, too few to be reliable.
- Hovering any rate shows its statistical range (a 95% confidence interval).
- Figures are descriptive counts over decided, public DOHA ISCR decisions, never predictions or assessments of any pending case.
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