". You're completely powerless over your addiction? No, you're not. How many people has this actually prevented from getting or staying sober?"
From the CDC:
Excessive alcohol use is a leading cause of preventable death. This dangerous behavior accounted for approximately 88,000 deaths per year from 2006–2010, and accounted for 1 in 10 deaths among working-age adults aged 20–64 years.
IMO that's quite a few that the powerlessness prevented from getting a d staying sober in the U.S. alone.