date:Jun 04, 2015
America has a drinking problem, and its getting worse. A new study shows that 32 million Americans, nearly one in seven adults, have struggled with a serious alcohol problem in the last year alone. It gets worse if you look at numbers across peoples entire lives: In that case, nearly one-third have suffered an alcohol-use disorder.
In a study published today in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, researchers surveyed more than 36,000 Americans and asked them about their drinking habits. They found tha