He more likely has liver cirrhosis

already, resulted from chronic alcoholism. and next stage of liver condition, would be cancer. People with alcoholism relapsed commonly, just like quit smoking. encourages him to go to inpatient rehab treatment program again, 90 days, 6 months, even 12 months, but he is the one that needs to make his decision to change his life. You can be supportive. There are some medications which can be helpful, but still needs him to make effort to change his behaviors. If in U.S. he can go to community mental health center. It is usually free, if he has low income or no incomes. I witness that there are quite amount of people, that can recovery from alcoholism although not everyone.