Chronic alcoholism is progressive, and often fatal disease resulting in loss of control and dependency (mental addiction) over alcohol. Alcoholism varys in severity from mild to life threatening and affect the individual, the person's family, and society in numerous adverse ways. The four important symptoms of alcoholism includes craving for alcohol, loss of control (not being able to stop drinking once drinking has begun), physical dependence or withdrawal symptoms, such as nausea, sweating, shakiness, and anxiety after stopping drinking and tolerance (the need to drink greater amounts of alcohol to get "high.").

Prolonged periods of excessive drinking can lead to many diseases such as stomach ulcers, gastritis, pancreatitis, cirrhosis of the liver, anemia, coronary heart disease, brain damage etc.

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