if you or someone you love has an alcohol problem, this is the first step in recovery.

How do you know you have an alcohol problem?

1. Have you ever tried to cut down on your drinking?
2. Have you ever felt annoyed when someone talked to you about your drinking?
3. Have you ever felt bad or guilty about your drinking?
4.Have you ever used alcohol in the morning to settle yourself down?

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. If we take identical twins and split them at birth and raise one in Wyoming and one in Ethiopia, if one twin becomes an alcoholic, there is a 40% chance that the other twin will become an alcoholic. Alcoholism runs in families. If you have an alcohol problem it is very likely that other members of your family are addicted.

Alcoholism is lethal: Ninety five percent of untreated alcoholics die of alcoholism.
Can I quit drinking on my own? 

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.
Ninety percent of alcoholics stay sober for the next year if they go through treatment, regularly attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, and go to aftercare once a week.