Drinking: personal hobbies, friends' parties, weddings and funerals, family gatherings, and so on. Sometimes I drink alone, but the problem of drinking by myself can still be grasped.

Alcoholism: basically drink every day and every meal, preferring not to eat or drink, and get drunk as soon as you drink. Even a person can get drunk. Have a serious dependence on alcohol, alcohol dependence

Alcoholism refers to excessive drinking without restraint. It can make people lose and reduce their self-control ability to varying degrees and engage in some immoral or illegal behaviors. Criminal laws and criminologists in various countries agree that alcoholism has certain social harm, but they have different understandings of the severity of the harm.

Drinking is beyond the standard of moderate drinking or general social drinking. Heavy drinking is often judged by drinking more than a certain amount per day (for example, 3 standard cups per day) or drinking each time (for example, 5 standard cups per time, at least once a week). Same as: alcoholism See: excessive drinking; Standard cup.

Generally speaking, if a person drinks too much and can't control himself, which leads to obstacles or influences in cognition, behavior, body, social function or interpersonal relationship, and he knows it well and can't control it, he will reach the degree of "alcoholism". If it becomes more and more serious, and drinking is more important than anything else, you must spend a lot of time or energy to drink or give up drinking, or you must drink to feel comfortable (psychological dependence), or you must increase your alcohol intake to achieve the expected effect (tolerance), otherwise you will have alcohol withdrawal syndrome and reach the degree of "alcohol dependence".