Amen,

Drugs and Alcohol were never my problem. Hell, they were the solution, albeit one that probably would have killed me.

Did anyone ever see the movie "Trainspotting?" There's this great diolog in the begining where the lead character is talking reciting all the advice that well-meaning people had given him over the years to quit drugs. Finally he says, "hey, we're not stupid, we know this stuff is bad for us but it feels so good."

I could completely indentify. I knew from very early in my drinking and drug using career that it was causing me problems. But I needed releif. Releif from what? Releif from all those preceptions, emotions and ideas that created a life that I had to escape from.

I too have been alcohol and drug free since being in Striaght but I too agree that Straight only gave me start in that.

Tom