I can't seem to understand a cure for a condition that assumes a return to consumption of the addictive substance. I was a smoker for three and a half decades, and I quit that addiction. I would never think that I could or even should return to smoking again. Or how about a crank or a crack addict? How could they feel they have quit their addiction but are still entitled to have a taste now and then? Cocaine? Heroin? Surely we would think that if they felt they could return to a speedball maybe just on special occassions that they would be bonkers.
A cure of alcoholism to my thinking is no different. A cure is the ability to live a good satisfying life without alcohol, it would seem to me. Am I cured or recovered? Absolutely. Never drinking again. That's how I win.