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What You Probably Didnt Know About Alcoholism

Published: Aug. 12, 2022, 8 a.m.

This podcast is the second in the series on the deadly effects of alcohol and the disease of alcoholism.

We learn that:

  1. Alcohol may be the deadliest drug on the planet because it is easily available, cheap and warps the mind at just .08% of the substance in the blood.
  2. A few alcoholics are the real troublemakers. Ten percent drink half the alcohol and likely kill more than 50% of the 18,000 people killed by drunk drivers every year.
  3. An amazing 38 million people binge drink every month, on average 4 times a month at 7 drinks or more each time out. There is not much difference by age or education. It is an equal-opportunity epidemic.
  4. There is really only one good bit of news: alcoholism is highly treatable and most of its effects are reversible with the right treatment and a commitment by the alcoholic to become healthy again.