Cocaine is rampant in American industry, with 85 percent of cocaine users coming from alcoholic families.

His alcoholic family disowned him when he moved in with Maureen's family and got sober.

These communication problems many contribute to the escalation of conflicts in alcoholic families.

"They come from alcoholic families, mothers who drank," the director told him.

"How did it feel growing up in an alcoholic family and having a brother who's a drug addict?"

She fled there at the age of twelve, to get away from her alcoholic family and abusive father.

The letter cited the dysfunctional, alcoholic and abusive family in which her husband grew up.

I'm the product of an unhealthy, alcoholic family where the average weight was 200 pounds - and that was the women!

"I grew up in an alcoholic family," she says.

In alcoholic families there is usually someone like me who is the rock.