I was always told that once a addict always an addict yet your tv ad says I was once an addict and now I am not?

YES! Once an addict always an addict, if you're an addict you will never be able to use alcohol or drugs without it having consequences, I guarantee it.

Once an addict always an addict only in the sense that you hv to keep on your Ps n Qs about staying clean. But from that day you last used to the present, you can be normal, act, be, think normal, gradually you get that name, (addict), out of your vocabulary. What differ is there in someone who drinks socially and someone who WAS an alcoholic? When you hv a normal function on life, you begin to socially fit in, getting alcoholic, out of your life WILL happen. You just need time.