“…The universally accepted criteria for SUD continue to consist of a mixture of subjective elements (e.g., craving for substance use), behavioral elements (e.g., narrowing of the drinking repertoire) and biological elements (tolerance and abstinence) (American Psychiatric Association, 2013;World Health Organization, 1999). Although these criteria are able to cover, in a generic way, the majority of problematic experiences, they do not shed much light on the specific differences among the ways in which people, in their daily realities, actually experience them (Leal, Muñoz, & Serpa, 2019). Their application depends on subjective criteria that cannot be defined objectively -as, for instance, what a person or a social group understands by restriction of the drinking repertoire is by no means universal.…”