Originally Posted by
GerandTwine 
I can hear it now. "You've been abstinent for decades. The rational choice is to just give it a try all by yourself and see if you can handle it. No one will know. You don't even remember what it felt like. Don't you at least want to find that out again?"
AV is still AV now, or decades later, no difference whatsoever. Nonsensical is being all too human to discern that subtle differences in what is or isn't AV is moot at best, and best just dropped, and move on with life.
AV itself can never ever get anybody back to drinking. Only I can decide to pick up that drink, not my AV, and not my Beast. And only I can put that drink down and forever quit drinking too. Not my AV, and not my Beast.
AV is perfectly a normal thinking process, and not worth getting even the slightest concerns about, now, next week, next year, or even decades into the future, GT.