Content Causes and Risk Factors of Alcohol Use Disorder What Is a Chronic Disease? Is alcohol use disorder a disease? Is Alcoholism a Mental Illness? Medications Treatment In the study a genetic marker was found in 69 percent of 70 cadavers who had died from alcohol related deaths. But, the cadavers only represented 5 percent of the American population. According to the study, 25 percent of the population has the « alcoholism gene marker » or genetic …