Originally Posted by
Stevie1 
True, but I was responding to your post where you said:
"Why did I hang around with the people I hung around with?...Because they drank...The more the better."
Which gave the impression that you befriended people simply because they would drink heavily with you.
I did. There weren't a lot of non drinkers in the places I hung out. The more they drank...The better I felt about the problem I was denying.