I see winos and drunks around who live on the street, but they’re alcoholics. Normal people don’t suffer from acquired brain injury from alcohol, do they?

A common misconception with alcohol related brain impairment is that it won’t happen to people with otherwise ‘healthy lifestyles’. Alcohol and other substances do not discriminate in their damaging effects. In fact, people who might consider themselves to be ‘high functioning’ are often at considerable risk of developing mild to moderate brain impairment.