Originally Posted by
Coyena 
. He will be sober on the entire deployment, and I just don't understand how he can go that long and then jump right back into alcoholism.
As long as they know they can reward themselves with a drink at the end of the forced sobriety, an alcoholic can be sober. An alcoholic can go for long periods of sobriety as long as they know it's not forever.
That is addiction.
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