JeffreyAK

Sure, that's the solution to a drinking problem, quit drinking. But for most people who have drank to the point of long-term chemical dependency, anyways, it's a lot harder than just saying no, so it's a bit unfulfilling to point to quitting as the solution, because the next question is always "How?" That's where there isn't a single answer that works for everyone.

The other part is, there are often more problems underlying the drinking, like all the socialization and life problem solving skills we never got because we were too busy drinking ourselves into oblivion for years Some folks have trauma to face up to, bad relationships, there's often a lot of wreckage to clean up that can take years. I was lucky in that regard, I didn't have a lot of baggage, but I sure had some. That's the stuff that can sometimes lure us back to drinking, after we've quit. That little addict-voice birdie that tells us we already know the "solution" to whatever we can't deal with, take a drink.