The physically addictive quality of alcohol has more to do with the liver and less to do with the brain even though alcohol is known to cause brain damage. The primary damage from excessive continuous alcohol consumption over a period of 8 years or more is in the liver resulting in a variety of metabolic and processing disorders. In some cases sudden severe withdrawal can be harmful and possibly fatal as the liver is incapable of processing a variety of normal functions has become partially reliant on the continued alcohol consumption to address some of this functionality.

The most clear indicators of brain damage present in withdrawal are destruction of GABA and dopamine receptors that can result in a variety of behavior problems. The dopamine receptor damage is at least partially resultant from the liver damage.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_liver_disease

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_withdrawal_syndrome

> Please watch this before making other plainly wrong

Perhaps you should have your facts together before attacking people with divisive bias.

You appear to be confusing addiction, which is happening in the brain and is to do with the GABA and other receptors, with the nature of the withdrawal symptoms.