According to the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use & Health (NSDUH), 15.1 million adults, ages 18 and older, had an alcohol use disorder and an estimated 88,000 people die from alcohol related causes annually making alcohol the third leading preventable cause of death in the United States. (See https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/overview-alcohol-consumption/alcohol-facts-and-statistics).
According to the American Society of Addiction Medicine's 2016 Facts and Figures, nearly 2 million people in the United States are suffering from an addiction to prescription painkillers. (See https://drugabuse.com/taking-drugs-alcohol/opiate).
According to the American Society of Addiction Medicine's 2016 Facts and Figures, nearly 2 million people in the United States are suffering from an addiction to prescription painkillers. (See https://drugabuse.com/taking-drugs-alcohol/opiate).
Chances are we all know of someone who has a problem with alcohol and/or drug abuse and have witnessed the damage that it causes in that person's life and in the lives of those around him or her.
Many times a person feels compelled to divorce a spouse with an alcohol and/or drug abuse problem because that spouse is unwilling to admit to and/or deal with the problem.
