alcoholism

Adopted in infancy, Palmer was raised in Silver Lake, her upbringing impacted by her journalist father’s alcoholism and her stay-at-home mother’s religiosity.

He struggled with fame that led him to alcoholism.

But one woman, from Gwynedd, who has battled alcoholism said raising the price would only cause "more suffering" to families of addicts.

Earhart was born into a solidly middle-class family in Kansas, close to her younger sister, Muriel, but her father’s job failures and alcoholism uprooted the Earharts, undermining the girls’ educations.

She sees his alcoholism as the byproduct of an idealism that got crushed.