Unfortunately for me, it was a very serious injury. Some of you know I completely destroyed both of my knees and the healing time was estimated at 1 year. That, in combination of the heavy opiate pain killers I needed to be on forced me to put down the booze. I worried that my heavy drinking with the medication might kill me. I didn't really want to die. So, in the last year I kicked both booze and opiates. Tough, but worth it.