Two or more affirmative answers indicate probable alcoholism. Alcoholism is a chronic, progressive, relapsing brain disease. Five percent of Americans die of alcoholism. Alcoholism is nothing to be shamed of because it is genetic. Forty percent of alcoholism is caused by genetic factors and sixty percent by factors we don't understand.
Alcoholism runs in families.
If you have an alcohol problem it is very likely that other members of your family are addicted. Ninety five percent of untreated alcoholics die of alcoholism. Four percent of alcoholics stay sober for the next year if they try to quit on their own. Fifty percent of alcoholics stay sober for the next year of if they go through treatment. Seventy percent of alcoholics stay sober for the next year if they go through treatment and regularly attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.