I think too that mindfulness complements AVRT and can help us in separating from our AV.
AVRT says to regard AV - any thinking or feeling that suggests or supports the possibility of future drinking- as being ego-alien, as coming from and belonging to IT, not 'I'. Mindfulness supports this because everything that we are aware of, that we hold in awareness, is 'not-I'.
E.g. if I'm going around on autopilot, a sudden urge to drink is going to catch me unawares and I'm quite likely to find myself drinking again without really knowing why. Both AVRT snd mimdfulness would say that the reason was that I experienced the simple urge to drink as me-wanting-to drink. But if I experience the urge in awareness I will see it for what it is, as just an urge, something that does not hold my identity, and this will create a space or separation between me and the urge.