Originally Posted by
tricky164 
why cant you alcoholics get your head around the fact that if there was no alcohol you 'would' use. its ok saying "i dont do drugs", and "i could take them or leave them" but your talking with the bennefit of recovery, dont do recovery, take alcohol out the way and you would use. because we like the effect, that sence of ease and comfort that comes from taking a mind altering substance.
Can't say I agree with this statement. I drank alcohol for the "sence of ease and comfort". I used pot & coke to get high. When I got to the point where the novelty of being high wore off I stopped taking drugs. There was no struggle what-so-ever and I never looked back at that decision.
Even if alcohol had disappeared for some reason I doubt that I would have gone back to the same drugs. I may have tried pills like vicodan& oxicotton but I doubt I would have been willing to buy them illegally.