acute pancreatitis is unrelated to liver damage. It's triggered by long-term alcoholism in about 1% of the population, for unknown reasons. It's acute in the sense that it makes you very, very, sick and puts you in unbelievable pain. It goes away if you stop drinking. If untreated, it can kill you. The only way to stop it is to stop drinking, and believe me no matter how much an alcoholic you are, a single round of that shit will scare you off the booze for a long, long time. I still can't look at wisky. It's really truly that bad. But it has nothing to do with liver problems or anything else, it's an abnormal reaction of the pancreas to extended periods of alcohol abuse.