article_snippet: It is like alcoholism,' David maintains. '
article_snippet: You can not touch a drink for 50 years, but you are still an alcoholic.
article_snippet: It might have gone into mental remission for years
article_snippet: otherwise the alcohol was fast-acting
article_snippet: Then I began to over-socialise and drink like a fish.
article_snippet: Luckily I don't have an addictive gene and I stopped that.