The DSM-IV criteria have not been widely used in the college population. Instead, instruments such as the Young Adult Alcohol Problems Screening Test (YAAPST; Hurlbut and Sher, 1992) and the Rutgers Alcohol Problems Index (RAPI; White and Labouvie, 1989) have been utilized more frequently in the college drinking literature (Devos-Comby and Lange, 2008). Further, college students have been underrepresented in studies of the DSM-IV abuse and dependence criteria, although they are an ideal group in which to explore the role of binge drinking on the diagnostic criteria, given that students engage in heavy drinking frequently.
