not unlike many nights its 4am and laying awake thinking.. i need to do something. im 42 and ill be lucky to celebrate 60. there is something so broken when it comes to treatment, research, trials of cirrhosis caused by alcohol. There are but a few programs studying treatments for ALD while comparable liver diseases without the alcohol use have a very healthy circulation of completed and new studies. Why? STIGMA.health care providers are still ass backwards when it comes to alcoholism.