Well
My first sponsor is a hospital director. He chairs noon meetings at the hospital frequently.
I used to think it would be a big scarry embarrassing deal to be an alcoholic. I think the 12-steps have humbled me to the point where I could really care less what people think. All I know is I'm forever grateful to have found out what has been wrong with me for so long, and a solution to it.
I hear out in some areas of California you're not "hip-&-cool" unless you're in some sort of recovery program these days. I guess it's become the "in thing" to do.
I don't know about all of that. I just like my new bar and the patrons who frequent it.