The craving for alcohol is as strong as the need for food or water, and usually lasts a lifetime. There is a strong correlation between alcohol and mental health. Individuals with mental disorders are more likely to develop alcohol addiction, and vice versa. The overall incidence of alcohol addiction is more than twice as high in people with psychiatric problems than in the general population. Etiology of alcohol addiction: Molecular abnormalities in biological cell membranes are the essence of alcohol addiction. All alcoholics have chronic alcohol tolerance, and the reason they remain sober despite abnormally high blood ethanol concentrations may be a function of ethanol-adaptive membrane mechanisms in the nervous system. Human cellular biofilms (including the central nervous system) that are frequently exposed to alcohol, i.e., human tissue fluids are often exposed to a certain concentration of alcohol, the nervous system becomes biologically dependent on it, and the individual becomes tolerant to alcohol. How to identify alcohol addiction: 1. Strong craving and addiction to alcohol due to long-term heavy drinking, so that drinking cannot be controlled, and once drinking is stopped, various mental and physical symptoms are produced. The incidence of alcohol dependence is significantly more in men than in women, and more in Caucasians than in Yellows. This is a hallucinatory state caused by long-term alcohol consumption. Patients experience a large number of rich and distinct hallucinations within 1 to 2 days after suddenly reducing or stopping drinking alcohol, with hallucinations being the main cause. On top of the hallucinations, corresponding nervousness and fear or depression, the patient’s state of consciousness is clear during the onset, and there are no obvious symptoms of psychomotor excitement or neurological hyperfunction of the plant. The duration of alcoholic hallucinations is variable, ranging from a few hours to no more than 6 months. 3. Patients with chronic alcoholism are suspicious of their spouses, manifesting as jealous delusions and also visible delusions of victimization; the amount of alcohol consumption gradually increases; not drinking for a longer period of time produces the psychological desire to drink alcohol without timely drinking will produce: a sense of absence, irritability, and even psychoneurotic symptoms such as convulsions, tremors, and epilepsy. If you drink alcohol in time, you will have a sense of relief and satisfaction, and the above symptoms will improve rapidly, which is called “withdrawal symptoms”. Judgment is based on the above symptoms! Also, the diagnosis is based on the patient’s drinking history and related medical records.