Go on a soul crushing bender for weeks, get sick, sober up a few days and right back at it.
That was me. I had a seizure from acute alcohol withdrawal which can be fatal without medical intervention and still went right back at it after they had fixed me up. I had to go to rehab to protect me from myself. I needed to be somewhere that alcohol absolutely was not available. no matter what, no matter how, so that I could get enough sober time to assume responsibility of protecting me from myself. After 30 days the physical addiction was gone, at which point the ball was in my court to deal with the mental addiction. I no longer had even a flicker of an excuse. If I thought otherwise, the real excuse was always to be found in the mirror.