intoxication, measured with the item, “How often in the past year did you drink enough to feel drunk?”, itself a strong predictor of alcohol-related consequences and dependence symptoms (Greenfield, 1998; Midanik, 1999; Zemore, 2005). Last, we assessed (5) maximum drinks consumed on any single day. Heavy drinking was defined as a factor score comprised of these 5 indicators; scores were used as continuous variables and to assign respondents to 4 heavy drinking levels. The No Heavy Drinking level included respondents with a daily maximum <5 and no past-year drunkenness. High Heavy Drinking was comprised of the top tenth percentile of heavy drinkers, while the remainder was split into Low and Moderate levels based on a median split. Low and No Heavy Drinking levels were combined for the current study.
