PWS is over after 6 months when you are very generous. There is no excuse to have a normal, disciplined, civilized drinking after physical withdrawal. Even when withdrawing, nobody forces you to drink in excess. Drug habituation is not the same as addiction. You can be physically dependent on antidepressants and experience withdrawal symptoms as anyone who's ever had brain zaps can tell, but that's not the same as craving and giving in to a substance use. It is the personality, aka lack of discipline, that is the most important driving factor behind addiction, and it is the same for drug dependent addiction as well as with behavioral ones like gambling or binge eating. If that were not true, please tell me why the recovery literature is full of warnings not to switch addictions? In fact many former alcoholics gain weight, as they switch to sugary snacks and become hambeasts, focusing their gluttony on just another DOC instead of becoming truly disciplined. It's the same mindset that makes many fat people fat in the first place, I consider addicts as the cousins of hambeasts. But let's not go further into this, we're here to hate on fatties, there can be other boards for other forms of lowlife.