I stopped drinking on March 6, 1987. In doing so, I saved my life and took a fresh direction.
I made a lot of new friends, earned a college degee, got married, divorced, had a child and learned to fight ESRD.
Two of my best friends from the old days are now deceased. They were supportive of me and my walk. I think of them as one died snorting coke and the other drankhimself to death. I lost another friend to AIDS after he had a few years sobriety. He ran into some people he knew who used and before long was shooting coke. That is how he got infected. It cost him his life.
I worked with his mother. He was the only child and his passing absolutely destroyed her.
This is serious stuff.