heavy drinking is done by anyone between the ages of 18 and 55. About 95% of the time, the ones who have alcoholism has a family member who is an alcoholic as well (Foroud). In a lot of cases, some alcoholics are not even checked thoroughly enough for any kind of substance abuse so they are not diagnosed. A survey was conducted by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University where "about four in 10 patients said they had a substance abuse problem that went undiagnosed, while one in 10 said his or her physician knew they had a substance abuse problem but did nothing to address it" (Do you have a problem with alcohol?).
             People have been suffering from alcoholism for the past century.
             There is no definite point in time as to when it became known, but in the "late 1930s, people who were suffering and dying from alcoholism became tired of going to professionals because they could not help them" (Ohlms). At this time, "Bill Wilson and Bob Smith founded Alcoholics Anonymous"(NIAAA). In the 1970s, President Richard "Nixon signed into law a Bill that would create the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism"(NIAAA). However, Americans and the American government believed that alcoholism alcoholism not a disease and all it did was make a person weak and cause them to have flaws in their personalities. "AA proved that alcoholics could recover from the disease" (NIAAA). Alcoholism starte
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