Attempting to define alcoholism or alcoholics is ambiguous at best
            
 not one absolute or clear definition that is agreed upon among the medical
            
 social scientists, or alcoholics themselves.  This makes it very difficult
            
 treatments and how these treatments should come about and whether or not
            
 government should fund them.  Membership in this group is fluid in the
            
 really does not discriminate, and it is always growing.  That is if you
            
 definition of an alcoholic that insists that an alcoholic is always an
            
 admits that he/she has a problem.  In essence, he/she never becomes a
            
 suggesting a behavior that is discontinued, rather that he/she is a
            
 has to work at recovery day in and day out.  There have been a variety of
            
 have suffered from alcohol abuse in this country, most famously, Betty
            
 treatment centers are named, and the current President of the United
            
 We can see that alcoholics always seem to grow in number even if they are
            
      They differ in the sense that alcohol is a constant in their day-to-
            
 ethnic tie to consumption of alcohol despite the stereotyping that exists
            
 drinking habits of Irish and/or German immigrants or their descendants.
            
 regional patterns, as a culture group for instance, will migrate to a
            
 or she has family or job opportunities in a given region.  But we may
            
 incidence of alcoholism in areas or locales where the opportunity to drink
            
 available.  Cops may be more likely to be alcoholics because of the stress
            
 must endure over the course of a job, but this too may prove to be nothing
            
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