Alcoholism as a disease which takes high third place in terms of frequency, and it is right behind cardiovascular and malignant diseases; according to WHO. Alcohol, as one of the oldest and most used, out of other addictive substances, has a calming and stimulating effect. Today, the consumption of alcoholic beverages is generally accepted by society. Due to daily consumption of alcoholic beverages, doubts have developed regarding the excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages and the judgment of whether there is an alcohol addiction or not. Alcohol causes the greatest number of victims, as many as 75-80 % of reported violence is associated with long-term ang high-volume consumption of alcoholic beverages. The research in this paper is focused on the number of emergency medical aid interventions in the field related to acute intoxication in rural and urban parts of Croatia. The main goal of this paper is to investigate the frequency of alcohol intoxication before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. For this paper, a retrospective study was conducted within the IT system of Institute of Emergency Medicine Karlovac County. The data that was taken from the system is about the patients who were intervened on by the emergency medical aid. According to the final diagnoses of the patient, the data that will be collected contains acute alcohol intoxication, their age, sex, time of day of the intervention and the address of the intervention (whether the intervention took place in a rural or an urban place). The data collected for the purpose of the paper, was collected from January 2018. to December 2021.