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About Alcoholism - Alcoholism Information, Research and Treatment
Confusion and Conflict
The alcoholic is still strongly stigmatized. Despite recent court rulings calling alcoholism a "disease," despite public education efforts to overcome the historic view of the public that the alcoholic is a morally inferior person who willfully drinks abusively, the victims of this disorder continue to be despised by many people, and to receive extremely low priority within the social order.
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