The now-classic guide to alcoholism returns with new, enlightening research—featuring a new foreword, new resources, and the same reliable insights and easy-to-read style that makes this the go-to resource for alcoholics and their loved ones in understanding this disease and overcoming it. Tens of millions of Americans suffer from alcoholism, yet most people still wrongly believe that alcoholism is a psychological or moral problem that can be “cured” once the purported underlying psychological problems or moral failings of the alcoholic are addressed.This book examines the physical factors that set alcoholics and non-alcoholics apart, and suggests a bold, stigma-free way of understanding and treating the disease of alcoholism.