Thanks Reggie, for your explanation about acetone. It appears modern science has supported Dr Silkworth's opinion after all. The phenomenon of craving is the single factor that distiguishes alcoholics of my type, because it never occurs in any other class of drinker.
If I didn't have that, I could still be a drunk, but by choice, not complusion. The difference between a drunk and a real alcoholic is the alcoholic would quit if he could, where the drunk could quit if he would.