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Bloomberg View: America’s most overlooked substance abuse problem

One in eight Americans abuses alcohol, a new study finds, a 50 percent increase since the start of the century.

In this Dec. 19, 2014 photo, alcohol bottles, their contents replaced with colored water, sit on a shelf in the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism's research alcohol bar at National Institutes of Heath in Bethesda, Md. Inside the hospital at the National Institutes of Health, researchers are testing a possible new treatment to help heavy drinkers cut back, by using a replica of a fully stocked bar. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)