Hazardous drinking and clinical correlates among suicidal patients receiving psychiatric inpatient care at military medical settings

•Data were collected from a unique sample of military psychiatric inpatients.•In this clinical sample, 28.9% of participants reported hazardous drinking.•Hazardous drinking was associated with a diagnosis of Substance Use Disorder.•Hazardous drinking was associated with a history of actual, but not interrupted or aborted, suicide attempt(s).•Link between hazardous drinking and single attempt history remained after controlling for covariates.