A Silent Epidemic?

The revelation that the woman who killed herself and seven other people driving the wrong way on a New York State highway was drunk and high has sparked criticism from the family -- who says it's not true -- and others who wonder how Diane Schuler could have hidden alcoholism from the rest of her family and friends.

The vodka bottle found at the crash scene jibes with what experts say is a common choice among alcoholics to drink vodka, believing that it's easier to hide. But The New York Times writes that all of the explanations are hard to swallow.

"That is part of what has made obsessives of so many people following the story: its refusal to reveal, at a minimum, some lesson that would let us walk away feeling safer for having learned it," The Times writes in an article Saturday.