Alcoholism at Large

Alcoholism, recovery and the homeless
A study conducted at Bellevue Hospital in New York City found that homeless alcoholics typically started drinking in adolescence. Dr. Ryan McCormack, MD, of New York University School of Medicine, interviewed homeless, alcohol-dependent patients who had four or more annual visits to the hospital’s emergency department over two years, finding that “One hundred percent of the patients enrolled in the study began drinking alcohol as children, becoming alcohol-dependent shortly thereafter.”