HIMS/Alpha
Airbubba -- Interesting to note HIMS is an alpha.org scheme and requires AA. All of them require (cough) spiritual content. I believe in the USA an unquestioning belief in 'God' is more widespread than in the UK (or most of the so-called Christian Europe)? In the UK today the accepted medical treatment model is CBT and Mindfulness. A decade or so ago it was AA + CBT. Sorry, that's a bit of a digression but it does affect the conditions under which pilots might be accepted back into the cockpit. No bad thing for the pilot, family or wider society.
Recently a hovercraft ferry pilot of twenty years experience was found so drunk he couldn't complete the few miles from Portsmouth to Ryde. His cockpit colleague took the controls and was so unskilled he couldn't fly the craft up the ramp (I had one direct eyewitness report of the arrival; the fellow couldn't get the momentum needed and just fell-off the ramp each attempt). The pilot will never again fly a hovercraft and he seemingly has no other work-skills. The pilot took full responsibility for something that surely someone should have foreseen?
If you mention drink in the context of flying (or driving) and the perp gets a public lynching. Lynching is not a good form of justice, punishment or rehabilitation.