What changes in brain structure occur with alcohol addiction?

  Many people have the experience of drinking, some people even have the habit of drinking, especially men, drinking regardless of mood, happy also drunk, when the mood is low more want to get drunk themselves. Drinking with others and drinking by themselves, some people suffer from alcohol dependence for a long time, and they don’t know it.  Drinking is as addictive as drug addiction, but not as addictive as drugs, and the harm is just as serious, and because alcohol is not a contraband, it is easy to get, which is an objective reason why it is difficult to quit drinking. What are the ways to eliminate heart addiction?  Alcohol is a fine active substance, long-term heavy drinking will cause serious poisoning of the central nervous system, specific structural parts of the brain has changed, dopamine mediator release increased, can strengthen the behavioral response to alcohol, and produce a “reward effect”, prompting patients to crave alcohol, the more you drink the more you want to drink, can not control themselves, can not stop.  If alcohol is stopped and the reward is delayed or terminated, alcohol-dependent patients will experience a series of physical and mental discomfort, such as feeling uncomfortable, restlessness, tremors in the limbs, nausea, vomiting, sweating and other withdrawal symptoms, which will disappear rapidly after drinking is resumed. This motivates alcohol-dependent patients to find alcohol by any means possible.  Alcohol-dependent patients cannot control their drinking, and they often use alcohol as a meal, resulting in gastritis, vitamin deficiency, malnutrition, insomnia, sexual dysfunction, and eventually leading to metabolic disorders and even failure of internal organs, often with liver and kidney stiffness, heart enlargement, alcoholic myocarditis, etc., and reduced resistance to infection.  Alcohol has a stimulating effect on the nerves of the brain, this point we can easily find, some people will show excitement, talk a lot, easy to grumpy, irritable after drinking. Some people just sulk and drink without talking, sometimes cry, and pass out when they are drunk. Patients with alcohol dependence, on the other hand, may also experience hallucinations, seizures, delirium, and other symptoms. In addition, the risk of driving and walking after drinking is also high.  It is easy to drink, but difficult to stop drinking. Many alcohol-dependent patients try to stop drinking, but most of them do not persist and have a high rate of relapse, and later come to our hospital to seek surgical cessation. After the surgery, the patient realizes the harm of drinking alcohol and controls himself to insist on not drinking alcohol, or has his family supervise him, thus achieving complete sobriety and restoring his health.