Alcohol withdraw symptoms

[Tussipax]

Which are the withdrawal symptoms oh acohol ?
Are they like opiates cold turkey ?
SWIM asks this cos she's a friend who gets drunk really often.He drinks to be euphoric, to forget that a friend of him died a couple of days ago.She's scared for him, cos SWIM is a codeine addict and she knows is pretty hard to recover from addiction.What's more it's a awesome dude, pretty nice with everybody, a real charming boy, a great friendly person,etc...
He makes SWIM sad
What's more when SWIM speaks about her addiction, he smiles cos she's pretty sure he thinks he won't be an addict.He has some pleasure with alcohol but one day it will stop and suffer will start and SWIM thinks her friend CAN NOT realize or even imagine that.