Alcohol Addiction: Who Are the $64000 Victims? - People typically feel sorry for, or angry with, alcoholics. These days, they are getting down to understand that people near the alcoholics also are damaged by their actions.
Alcohol addiction strikes at everyone round the alcoholic. Wives, husbands, partners; kids, mothers, fathers; employers, employees, staff; and even random strangers who were just "in the incorrect place" at the time.
