Jan Blomqvist, Ph.D., Addiction Researcher, Stockholm: There is a widespread belief that the only alternative left to people with severe alcohol problems, is to submit to being a 'non-practicing alcoholic' and to commit oneself to life-long total abstinence. Contrary to this, modern research has recurrently showed that there are multiple paths to stable recovery from such problems, and that quite a few do resume non-problematic drinking.