title: Perspectives on the validity of self-reported alcohol use.
abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explore the search for an answer to the question "are self-reports of alcohol consumption valid?" and the concurrent denial by most alcohol researchers, that over-reporting of alcohol may be a possibility. Researchers have tended to ask this question with the inherent assumption that there is an absolute answer. The truth, however, is unlikely to be so neat or so simple.
authors.forename: L T
authors.initials: LT
authors.lastname: Midanik
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000523:psychology*; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D003717:Denial, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D014342:Truth Disclosure