There are many stories of alcohol addiction. The stories of alcohol addiction can be either of the stories behind the beginning of what is now known as alcohol addiction, or the individual stories of the people who have suffered with alcohol addiction. Alcohol has been used and consumed since before biblical times. While alcohol has been around for millennia, alcohol addiction is considered to be of relatively new discovery It wasn’t until recently, around 1860, that alcohol addiction itself became noticed as such, an addiction to alcohol.

Stories of alcohol addiction on an individual, personal scale have a vast, and virtually unlimited plot line database. While you may hear stories of men, or women who thru their alcohol addiction were attempting to ease their minds of abuses suffered during their childhood, other stories of alcohol addiction are far more complex, and involved a start of just having a few drinks with friends, and ending by spiralling out of control into a full blown alcohol addiction. There are millions of stories, some of recovery and success, and some of defeat by an alcoholic addiction, and both tend to usually display a deep pain associated with both the alcohol addiction and various pain from their past, or present.

Alcohol has it’s personal stories rooted deep in ancient times. Centuries ago, before alcohol addiction was even a thought in the mind of a scholar, stories of the uses of alcohol as a medicine was an oft heard thing. Personally when looking back on the stories of medieval medicine, a story I read of medicinal options about 500 years ago, I believe I’d have chosen drinking some whiskey, or other form of alcohol long before I’d decide to go thru leech therapy! However, alcohol had it’s uses. In those far ancient times, going back to even the stories in the Bible, alcohol was a far more common beverage than water today. The reason is medically sound. While at points in history, it may not have been recognized, by drinking wine, persons were avoiding serious health problems. Alcohol killed many bacteria and pathogens, thereby rendering undrinkable water, in it’s new form as wine, or mead, into a safe drink.

All the various stories about when alcohol addiction began can be easily followed to the truth. The stories of alcohol addiction as a medical issue, are traced to around 150 years ago, when a man noticed that persons seemed to have a true addiction to the alcohol. In the 150 years, since then, as the stories of alcohol addiction has changed, and grown, the studies and treatments have likewise grown. A story that started so many years ago, is today a story of hope, of treatment.