Originally Posted by JeffreyAK

Yup. Abstain long enough and the alcohol-related issues go away. Now, are we perfect under the addiction? Probably not, and we may even have deeper issues to sort out that led us down the path that ended in addiction - trauma, for example, is a pretty common but not universal theme. But everyone else has their own issues too, whether or not they ever became addicts, so us former addicts aren't even special in that respect.