I was speaking to a friend of mine the other day who was alcoholic for years, in addition to being a cocaine addict. After a year of sobriety he felt he was ready to start drinking socially, but not use cocaine. When they went for treatment for alcoholism they presented to them that alcoholism was a disease. That there was treatment for alcoholism, but not a life time cure, due to the fact it is a disease.

While the overwhelming majority of people who have had treatment for alcoholism and choose to return to drinking return to alcoholic drinking there are those people who are able to drink socially again. So is there a cure? can someone receive alcoholism treatment and drink socially again. My only answer to this is the downside is so great to return to drinking after alcoholism treatment, why risk it. Some people don’t see it this way.