I see no one has posted here in a while, but I wanted to share my experience regardless. I am an alcohol abuser. I have been drinking wine (1.5 liters) 2-5 days per week for 8 months. I have noticed when I stopped I got numbness down my arms, anxiety, skin crawling like bugs, skin itching, insomnia, heart fluttering, constipation, dizziness, feeling faint, grey hair (folic deficiency). Wow! Really sorry I abused alcohol! Did a bunch of reading and discovered alcohol robs your body of B vitamins, toxifies your nerve fibres (numbness, itching etc), and I also went back to smoking for 6 months, which adds to all these symptoms and more! I'm on my fourth day not drinking and I just hope this doesn't last too long. I also found out this can raise your blood pressure and give you RA, cardiovascular disease plus other bad things! Worst thing that could happen is becoming an alcoholic and never being able to have another glass of Pinot noir!