Social Security Disability FAQs
Can alcoholics and drug addicts get Social Security disability benefits?
It depends on the facts of the case.
Alcoholics and drug addicts have heart attacks, get cancer or get sick in other ways just like everyone else.
Alcoholics and drug addicts
can get disability benefits
Alcoholics and drug addicts who become disabled separate from their alcoholism or drug addiction can become eligible for Social Security disability benefits.
If someone is disabled by their addiction, and not another illness or condition, then they cannot get benefits.
Prior to 1996, the law allowed addicts to get benefits and medical treatment on the basis of their addiction, but a change in the law ended that.
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