Share this article NEW YORK, April 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- We hated to admit that we could never drink safely. But in A.A. we finally gave up trying to control our drinking. What once had felt like a "solution" to our problems had become a "problem" beyond what we could ever have imagined. And often we were the last to know. We discovered that we had an illness called alcoholism - often referred to by the medical community as "Alcohol Use Disorder." Download the Meeting Guide app to find a meeting near you (PRNewsfoto/Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.) We found out that many people suffered from the same feelings of guilt, loneliness and hopelessness that we did.