. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 1.

Published in final edited form as: Addiction. 2015 Dec 28;111(10):1720–1726. doi: 10.1111/add.13210

Table 1.

Cutoffs for binge/heavy drinking definitions for women/men

Cutoff	Drinking Span	Occurrence Span	1^st Studies/Sources
5+	1 occasion	Past 2 weeks	MTF, CAS
4+/5+	1 occasion	Past 2 weeks	Wechsler et al., 1995
4+/5+	2 hour period		NIAAA, 2004
.08+ g/dL BAC	1 occasion		NIAAA, 2004
4+/5+	1 day	Follow-up period	FDA, 2006; Falk et al., 2010
4+/5.7+	1 day		Jefferis et al., 2005
6+/7+	1 day	Past 90 days	Read et al., 2008
8+/10+	1 occasion	Past 2 weeks	White et al., 2006
10+	1 day	56 days	Jackson, 2008

Note. Read et al. (2008) referred to this as ‘heavy’ binge drinking; White et al. (2006) examined double and triple the binge threshold; Jackson (2008) tested various thresholds and did not advocate for a specific threshold