The Progression of Alcohol Abuse and Alcohol Addiction

Treatment is focused all its efforts on this minority of excess drinkers and it ignores the millions of people who struggle, right? So we use this designation alcoholic for people whose lives have become unmanageable. And in order to go to an AA meeting, you have to say hi, my name is Annie and I'm an alcoholic. That by itself means a lot of people aren't going to walk into that meeting in the first place.