Originally Posted by
dwtbd 
If the medications suppresses the physical cravings making it 'easier'(?) to abstain, yet still experience the underlying reasons why they drink, when they are not drinking, how is it the underlying reasons are the cause of the drinking ?
I'm not sure I understand the question exactly but I think it has to do with the reasons that people drink to excess which are #1 a physical addiction to alcohol and #2 emotional reasons, like they are trying to escape difficult feelings, loneliness, depression, stress, anxiety and the like.
Medication can address #1 making it easier to deal with cravings and stop, but in order to stay stopped you also have to find other ways of coping with life's problems than alcohol.