one in eight american adults are alcoholics, study says /

A original study published in JAMA Psychiatry this month finds that the rate of alcohol use disorder,or what's colloquially known as “alcoholism,” rose by a shocking 49 percent in the first decade of the 2000s. One in eight American adults, and 12.7 percent of the U.
S. population,now meets diagnostic criteria for alcohol use disorder, […]

Source: washingtonpost.com