A 25 year study following 53,000 Manitobans with alcohol disorders has turned up some alarming facts.
The study reveals that more timely diagnoses and removing barriers to prescriptions and treatments for alcohol addictions is the key to getting quicker care.
The individuals showed an increase use in the child and family services, justice, income assistance, social housing and health care systems.
It was also revealed that the people who were in the study had accessed hospitals and emergency rooms for their alcohol disorder five times more often than the general public.
Those diagnosed with an alcohol disorder have a five times higher rate of dying within one year of being diagnosed.