This is my first Day 1. Today is the day I put the alcohol behind me. I started drinking eight years ago after a back injury left me in pain. I'm allergic to most pain killers, so I started to drink when my back hurt. Then I kept drinking even when it didn't. The pain will come back, I'm sure of that, but I will not let be an excuse anymore. The alcohol has to go. I feel very determined in this decision, but I am also a little scared. Is anyone else here afraid of failure?