drunk at meetings? yes I was.
I echo what everyone else has said: alcoholics know exactly where you are because they've been there.
I went to a lot of meetings drunk/ or still drunk from the night before. It took me a solid month of hitting a meeting, buying a bottle, hitting a meeting, hitting the bar. I sat in the back of the room, staring at the legs of the folding chair in front of me to keep from swaying.
Eventually, I raised my hand as a newcomer. I haven't had to drink, since.
But if I would have been chased out of the meetings...well, then there's simply no where else to go, is there?
i wrote something about this in 'forgiveness', a daily reflection from a few days ago if you want to check it out. (whiskeyandporn dot com)