Alcoholism is something that can't be formed in easy terms. Alcoholism as a whole refers to the circumstance whereby there's an obsession in man to keep ingesting beverages with alcohol content which is injurious to health. The circumstance of alcoholism doesn't let the person addicted have any command over ingestion despite being cognizant of the damaging consequences ensuing from it.

Even if the individual who's an alcoholic faces social ridicule, family insistency, abuses, insults, and so forth he's in a condition whereby he can't dispense with the habit or compulsion which is beyond his command. His senses are entirely under the influence of alcohol and any sort of an attempt put forth by him to abandon the habit doesn't work. He's therefore entirely dependant on the beverage.
An alcohol-dependent person has such a hunger to drink that even if he happens to get into alcohol related hassles like drunk driving, losing his occupation, and so forth it doesn't stop him from not abandoning the habit.

Not everybody who ingests alcohol is an alcoholic. An individual who consumes alcohol in restricted quantities and is able to say no when he doesn't wish to rink isn't termed an alcoholic. He or she is merely a social drinker.