This is dark stuff indeed.
It’d be a very poor doctor who says cirrhosis is a death sentence, and even that dreaded* condition is manageable, but drinking alcohol will cause further damage so would have to stop. I post on a liver forum, and people often say they have lesser conditions such as fatty liver or their blood test results are high, and then they follow up by asking if they can still drink x glasses of wine a week, etc. The answer, even if their GPs are too battle weary to say it, is no.
* Without wishing to make this thread a bit darker, cirrhosis has to be in every drinker’s mind. It really has zero symptoms until it’s reached an irreversible stage. We can analyse why we drink, speak to counsellors to get to the bottom of why we drink, etc, but whilst continuing to drink, the liver is struggling to cope. Reading about those who went from no symptoms at all one month to being told they need a liver transplant the next was enough for me to quit forever.