This is not like the question addressed by those searching for a higher power who are told that it can be anything. Nope, the Beast is one thing, one thing only and that goes for everybody who has an addiction. The addict is of two minds concerning consumption of the drug of choice - the rational mind that knows that the destructive behaviour must stop, and the addictive mind that simply wants to keep drinking. This addictive mind has been called the parasite, an interesting comparison, but in the AVRT context the addictive mind is The Beast.
The Beast is part of us, and will always be part of us, and therefore just needs to be accepted. Am I making sense?