In my experience...alcoholics looove to be with their drinking buddies. They can drink in comfort without any other responsibilities or intrusions......
One explanation of this is that one of the neurotransmitters in the brain...dopamine....floods the pleasure/reward centers of the midbrain in a more rapid and intense level than other ordinary pleasurable activities.....
It is not, necessarily,, that they like the drinking buddies, so much, either....it is the freedom and ability to drink, unfettered, that they are so attracted to....