List of the top 5 things about alcohol abuse and the disease of alcoholism that we need to remember

1. Alcohol use disorders cost more than $220 billion in social, medical, lost productivity and correctional expenses in the U.S. annually.
2. Up to 40 percent of all hospital beds in the country (except for those being used by maternity and intensive care patients) are being used to treat health conditions that are related to alcohol misuse.
3. Alcohol-related traffic deaths account for 40 percent (10,000) of all deaths on America’s roads.  Alcohol is a key factor in 68% of  manslaughters, 62% of assaults, 54% of murders and  attempted murders, 48% of robberies, and 44% of burglaries.
4. The World Health Organization estimates that there are 140 million people with alcoholism worldwide.  Alcohol abuse causes 1.8 million deaths a year, which represents 3.2% of all deaths worldwide.
5. Alcoholism has no cure, but there are several treatments.  It can only be arrested, or brought into remission, by stopping drinking.  It is a chronic and fatal disease that is also progressive, which means it only gets worse the longer a person drinks.  Alcoholism treatment professionals suggest that when a sober alcoholic returns to the alcohol in a relapse, he or she rapidly returns to where the disease would have progressed had the person never stopped drinking.

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