Like I said before , I think we humans are a complicated lot and that are there things to be said and considered along the lines of separating differrent aspects of addiction and looking at their perspective interplay. Things like the physical/chemical depedence and how that affects a person as they move toward detox/withdrawl, how those symptoms affect motivation to behavioural change. The psychological aspect of addiction and self sabatoge/harm. Addiction ambivalence and the idea of addiction 'in general' , the idea that at certain times people drink and claim to want to stop but don't actually want to stop, perhaps just trying to mitigate the consequences of not quitting. Those that drink , are physically depedent ,and have no desire to quit and all the gradations inbetween.
But as far as alcohol related issues are concerned, no one would argue that abstinence would cure all those ills related to alcohol consumption , yes ?