Alcohol addiction is a term with multiple and sometimes conflicting definitions. While the ingestion of alcohol is necessary to develop alcoholism, the use of alcohol does not necessarily result in addiction. The quantity, frequency and regularity of alcohol consumption combined with the ramifications of financial loss, family disruption, loss of employment and health problems all contribute to the definition.

Contrary to what you may have heard alcohol addiction is not an incurable brain disease. In fact, it is not a disease at all! But, for decades people have believed that alcohol addiction is a disease. Most psychologists, counselors and specialists today still believe that alcohol addiction is an incurable disease that must be “managed” for a lifetime, and that “there is no cure”
However, it’s not a genetically predisposed disease that is handed down through faulty genes.

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You can take painkillers and the rest to fix the sore head and the rest, but is there anything that cures the anixious spacey feeling the next day, the feeling of uneasy and general grumpiness accompanied with mild depression, and if I’ve had a big night I end up panicky. So apart from not drinking is there a cure for a mental hangover?