Nothing is more perplexing, exasperating, and discouraging to me than the way the American culture has diminished the way it looks at addiction. Perhaps it’s because so many people are addicted, themselves, and choose to live in denial serious affects of it on themselves and their loved ones, but there is no denying, addiction devastates lives, marriages and families.<\/p>\n
As we debate adding more addiction to the culture, through marijuana legalization, we’ve forgotten how devastating alcoholism can be. Or maybe we just don’t want to give up our own vices. Regardless, maybe it’s time to revisit some inconvenient truths.<\/p>\n
A 2014 Study, in Addiction.com<\/a> noted that nearly half of all people with an alcohol problem experienced divorce.<\/p>\n Overall, the researchers concluded, nearly half (48.3%) of the study participants with a past or present case of alcohol use disorder got divorced at some point in their lives. Between the first and second waves of the survey, the divorce rate for these individuals was 15.5%. By comparison, only 30% of the participants unaffected by alcohol use disorder had gone through a divorce. Between the first and second waves of NESARC, these individuals had a divorce rate of just 4.8%.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n