Chronic alcoholism

Chronic alcoholism generally refers to alcohol dependence and chronic alcoholism syndrome. Alcohol abuse is a behavioral disorder and a method of escaping unbearable stress and responsibility. Alcohol dependence is a biomedical concept, a special psychological state caused by long-term excessive drinking, and belongs to chronic alcoholism. Chronic alcoholism is the occurrence of multiple physical and mental disorders, or even irreversible pathological damage, due to long-term (several years to decades, usually more than 10 years) heavy drinking, such as alcoholic myocarditis, liver function damage or cirrhosis, multiple peripheral neuritis, central nervous system degeneration or brain atrophy, etc.