Normies love to pontificate about the causes of and solutions to addiction, but I never get more than a paragraph in before I find a vacuous statement that highlights how completely the speaker misses the point. It's fucking exhausting.
and what is one of the results of that "moment of clarity? They stop drinking.
That's the whole idea of being addicted. It is a dependency at a physical level outside of any of your abilities to reason. Only very strong people make it out and almost always with assistance from the outside.
Neither can addicts the vast majority of addicts, that's the point.
I would say most addicts don't want to be addicts at some point, yet they are still addicts.
I'm addicted to nicotine since I was 12 and I don't want to be, yet I am. I've quit a few times for a few months, but always get triggered back into starting up again.
“Peer reviewed studies peg the success rate of AA somewhere between five and 10 percent,” writes Dodes. “About one of every 15 people who enter these programs is able to become and stay sober.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/the-surpr...
Now do you see how it's like a disease? Users literally realize they need to stop or they will die, but they do not.