I will say this just once as you apparently know nothing of alcoholism... An alcoholic can NEVER drink moderately. if he can, then he isn’t an alcoholic. It’s as simple as that.
I worked bars for years and knew alcoholics, dead alcoholics, and recovered alcoholics who drank moderately.
Your cliched AA mantra isn’t very persuasive.
Hildy you are so wrong on that comment. There are many functional alcoholics in this world. I know, I would probably be considered one. Doesn’t a day go by I don’t have drink, some days more, some days less, I doubt I could function with out it.
That's a true statement.
FWIW, I worked in bars also, and I'm married to a retired medical doctor, who practiced psychiatry for 35 years. There is no such thing as a "moderate drinking" alcoholic, because alcoholics are powerless over alcohol. They cannot control their intake in the long run, be it a week, month or year.
Don't kid yourself.