Great inspiring story.
That surrender to a higher power can be an amazing way to turn things around. It can seem to our small, egocentric selves like we are giving up control, but we are really not.
Instead, it's the path to working in cooperation with something beyond ourselves, it's finally stepping into the flow of life, it's engaging in a to-and-fro with the vivifying power of the universe... the more you attune to this power, the more joy life gives, even the challenges become ways to grow.
There is no need for the illusory and destructive temptations of alcohol when you are in this place.