>>41336164
No they aren't.
T. Both parents were AA drunks. I spent the first 18 years of my life picking gum off beneath tables in shitty community buildings while old drunks told stories about that time they went to jail for beating a black dude with a baseball bat, including details about how hard black skulls are to crack.
I have seen about 70% of them fall off the wagon hard and die. Especially the old timers. The success rate is literally not a single percentage better than you just deciding to not be a piece of shit and stopping. The problem, you see, is that alcoholics are shitty people who don't want to stop being shitty because being shitty has become comfy.