Switzerland shows a decreasing rate among the less educated. The complete set of trends in social disparities by education level and by SES is available in Annex 5. Trends in social gradients in hazardous drinking show: narrowing social disparities in six countries with decreasing rates of hazardous drinkers among the more educated and/or the better-off (England, Finland Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, and New Zealand). In contrast, increasing social disparities are observed among women in England with rates of hazardous drinkers growing among the more educated. Ireland, which has the highest proportions of heavy episodic drinkers, displayed a remarkable trend of narrowing social disparities. In contrast, social disparities have been increasing in Germany, New Zealand, and the United States (men only), with the worse-off increasingly at risk over time compared to other SES groups (although education-related inequalities in HED narrowed in Germany at the same time).