et al., 1996; Kahler et al., 2003; Schuckit et al., 1998; Wu et al., 2009), suggests that women with DUIs may represent a particularly severe alcohol use phenotype. There is thus a need to test whether the DSM-IV criteria for alcohol abuse and dependence measure alcohol problems adequately and to a similar degree in men and women with DUI histories. Such evaluation is important given the increasing numbers of women arrested for DUI and the public concern with this trend, as evidenced by frequent news articles about women arrested for DUI (e.g., Flam, 2009; Lundstrom, 2009; Tellier, 2009).
