indicate the validity of adolescent self-reports of drug use (Denis et al., 2012; Hornik & Orwin, 2012; Harrison & Hughes, 1997; Patrick et al., 1994; Richter & Johnson, 2001; Smith, McCarthy, & Goldman, 1995; Yang et al., 2006) A number of national agencies (e.g., NIAA, SAMHSA) define binge drinking as 5 or more drinks in a row and it is also common to measure HED by asking respondents to consider HED over the past 12 months (e.g., Carlson, Johnson, & Jacobs, 2010). HED was selected as the current study’s dependent variable because it defines problematic drinking throughout development better than other drinking variables such as regular drinking (Thompson, Stockwell, Leadbeater, & Homel, 2014; Winward, Hanson, Bekman, Tapert, & Brown, 2014).
