You need to separate the PD issues with the A issues. For instance, my AS is NPD to begin with which parlays perfectly into an A (entitled, selfish, no empathy, always right and knows best). She stopped drinking, but all those wonderful "traits" remained (I have gone NC with her). There's a saying... if you have a drunken horse thief that stops drinking, what do you have? A sober horse thief! 😅