Originally Posted by
soberlicious 
The rules will always always continue to change and you must always continue to try and keep up with them. It's not sustainable. You (ahem...your AV) may choose to disagree with me, but it simply is not sustainable over a lifetime for the addicted. Here nor there to me though whether you "buy" it. It's just truth. Something will give eventually.
I can show you links if you want, but the best evidence shows that the highest incidence of diagnosable alcoholism peaks in the 20's and then continuously goes down over lifespan (and a vast mojority of the time, without "treatment".) Some of the former alcoholics end up abstinent, and some progress to more moderated drinking.
I'm aware of no high quality evidence that support the notion of the progressive disease theory as being representative of the anything besides the exception rather than the rule.
You don't come off harsh.
I just am not persuaded by "Believe this because I/we say so" arguments. I'm just an evidence junkie.