Thanks Ft! I certainly am cautious of opiates. I've used them in the past while visiting family who know I'm an alcoholic (especially last this Christmas for a few weeks). I've sort of leaned on hydrocodone and lorazapam in the past to get through those times (it seems I could always find an open bottle somewhere if I needed it).
Alcohol has been my first drug of choice, but I'm lucky that opiate addiction is still more or less a 'not yet'.