Partially in response to these concerns, an overall substance use disorder category has been proposed for DSM-V that will consist of existing items from abuse and dependence (excluding legal problems and including a craving item), resulting in eleven substance use disorder items. According to the proposal “on the table” in the most recent draft available at the time of this writing, individuals who endorse two of eleven of these items will meet criteria for a substance use disorder (American Psychiatric Association, 2010). The two of eleven scoring algorithm was, in part, put in place to maintain comparable AUD prevalences between DSM-IV and DSM-V (Borges et al., 2010).
