The Self-Rating of the Effects of Alcohol (SRE) form, delivered in a face-to-face interview format, was used to assess level of response to alcohol (Schuckit et al., 1997a). The SRE is a retrospective measure of responses to alcohol and consists of estimating the number of drinks required to obtain a given intoxication effect, such as “begin to feel different,” “feel a bit dizzy or begin to slur your speech,” “begin stumbling, or walking in an uncoordinated manner,” and “pass out, or fall asleep when you did not want to.” Number of drinks estimates were obtained for the first 5 times participants ever drank (SRE-5), for the period of heaviest drinking (SRE-H). In addition, as recommended by Schuckit and colleagues (1997a), a total score was computed (SRE-T). SRE average scores are reported in Table 1 and are consistent with a previous report on a sample of young nondependent drinking men (Schuckit et al., 1997b). The SRE showed high internal consistency in this sample, Cronbach α = 0.91.
