I once had almost eight years under the belt. I got the flu and was working without sick leave so I started sipping senega of ammonia, which has alcohol ( I didn't realise), and I discovered cough medicine (Ugh!). Within a couple of months, new year 1999, I left my family and started a tortuous journey towards my 2004 final break with alcohol.
In 2008 a relationship ended. I more by a habitual response to such events than a craving set out on a binge but the next day I came to and dumped the booze and haven't touched it since.
In other words: Even after long periods of sobriety I have to be vigilant. There is no magic 'cure'. There is no person or thing that can stop me from drinking. I own my sobriety. I drink becuse I cannot not drink which is why I don't drink. I stay sober by not drinking and when not drinking I find my self on a well trodden path filled with good advice on how to proceed.