It's all semantics, so whatever makes you feel better. When not drinking and not obsessing about drinking becomes second nature, I feel you could use the term "recovered". For some alcoholics that might never be the case, and for some alcoholics that may happen quite fast with the right motivation. Once you lose all will to drink and the obsession that goes with it I think recovered would be the proper term. But once you are an alcoholic that is the term that will always stick, because your body a prgressed to a point where you can't drink again without falling back into the cycle, IMO.