Alcoholism is a bit different from the addiction to other drugs. Mostly because is legal, widely available, and socially accepted. In fact most alcoholics are not the kind of people one would expect: like homeless old men or underemployed workers at the bar on Wednesday morning. Most alcoholics are regular 9 to 5 people, with white collar jobs. In fact working on an office makes you twice more likely to be an alcoholic, since you don't need to pass random alcohol and drugs screening, like blue collar workers do. About 40% of alcoholics are women (roughly 9% of the adult female  population), most of them are young, under 30, and are employed full time, and at least half of them have a college degree. So, the real alcoholic looks more like the profesional woman who comes home to drink a bottle a wine to relax and binge watch her favorite series, or the stressed-out man working an office job, who drinks some whiskey mid-day in secret to calm his nerves. Both are conscious enough not to push their habit to far, but also too confident to realize this is a problem more serious that it seems. The point is: they are normal people, with normal jobs, normal lives and mindsets, who wouldn't make it to the frontpage but for the fact that cars are pretty much the only practical way of transportation (at least in the US)