Please pardon me. I want to mention Annie Grace's book, This Naked Mind, for a specific reason. It is a very easy to understand writing about how we view alcohol.
Dim, it's very insightful about how/why relapse is so common. It moved me. I think a lot of us don't fully understand the basics of how alcohol, as a drug because it obviously is, works on our brain. Once we understand the actual physiological mechanisms of alcohol, it seems to take some of the self-inflicted pressure we put on ourselves. It's worth a look (and cheap too).