About Alcoholism - Alcoholism Information, Research and Treatment

It is estimated that there are approximately five million alcoholics in the United States. I haven't the slightest bit of faith in these statistics. In fact, I am convinced that all of the statistics I have seen are low of the mark. In Iowa, for example, the research people were estimating ten years ago that the number of alcoholics in our population was 50,000. Today, these same experts are still talking about 50,000 alcoholics. Whether or not the original estimate was conservative, I am convinced that there has been a significant increase in alcoholism almost everywhere in the past ten years.