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.