There is a dramatic impact felt by millions of people worldwide because of the serious illness known as alcoholism. There are those who consume alcohol (a drug) on a regular basis that crave the alcohol, are dependent on the drug and suffer consequences from the disease. The consequences are health-related, financial and can even have a devastating effect on spouses or other family members. Someone with alcoholism can also impact strangers when the disease causes them to make poor judgments like drinking and driving.

There are well-known facts about the disease alcoholism that contributes to the impact that the disease has on others including the fact that alcohol-connected deaths claim the lives of 100,000 individuals each year in the United States. The causes of these alcohol related deaths come from drinking and driving, diseases such as cancer of the liver, cirrhosis of the liver, and stroke. Falls are also included in causes of alcohol-related deaths. There are an estimated 109 million individual who drink alcohol in the United States aged 12 and up with 18 million of them fitting the diagnostic criteria for alcoholism or alcohol abuse.

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