History shows that the vast majority of addicts are always addicts. And generally it doesn't matter if they are sober for 8 days, 8 months, 8 years or 8 decades. Picking up another drink or snorting/smoking/injecting whatever your DOC is generally always leads to abuse again. Sometimes it takes a while but it almost always ends bad.
Do you want to risk it? If your addiction landed you in jail before, it most likely will again. And who knows what other horrors it might bring back into your life.