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DSM-III criteria for alcohol abuse: associations with alcohol consumption behavior
R E Tarter1, A M Arria, H Moss
1Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pennsylvania 15213.
Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research
|December 1, 1987
Abstract:
DSM-III criteria for diagnosing alcohol abuse in a sample of hospitalized alcoholics highly correlated with each other and were poorly correlated with self-reported drinking pattern, quantity, and consequences of alcohol consumption. These findings question the specificity and the construct validity of the DSM-III criteria for diagnosing alcohol abuse.