Binge drinking and the American college student: what's five drinks?

By H. Wechsler, T. Nelson. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 2001

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Embodied Discrimination: The Relation of Sexism and Distress to Women’s Drinking and Smoking Behaviors (2007, methodology): “Binge drinking Binge drinking was measured with Wechsler, Dowdall, Davenport, and Rimm’s (1995) question for women: “Over the past 2 weeks how many times have you had four drinks or more in a row?” According to Wechsler and Nelson (2001), most major national databases of college students use a versi”
Targeting misperceptions of descriptive drinking norms: efficacy of a computer-delivered personalized normative feedback intervention. (2004, methodology): “The 5– 4 drinks measure, although somewhat arbitrary, has been used extensively as an indicator of risk in the college drinking literature (Wechsler & Nelson, 2001).”