If you can sip wine on occasion and not over drink, or think constantly about the next drink and don't drink to excess or every day, maybe you can be a social drinker.
All 'social drinkers' start out as social drinkers and remain that way. Alcoholics start out as social drinkers and end up alcoholics.
I quit drinking 25 days ago and since I never drank outside my home I had/have no 'drinking buddies'. You may be wise to distance yourself from your drinking buddies, at least for a while.
All the best to you.:ghug2