Thanks @Lisa07 and @Eke for you kind comment. What you said inspire me a lot. I start to see the difference between those drinking buddies and the other ones. I wish I had more friends like that actually! I’ve evolved for over ten years in an academic student life and carrier where we stayed a lot in between colleagues for everything, friends, relationships, even living together as roommates and the alcohol culture was really part of the job. That is insane. Now I’m making a change and unfortunately I don’t know many normies as you say. I wish the recovery system was more développer in France, it seems pretty nice! Nevertheless I’m grateful for this chat here, it does help!
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Hey @Pat_m , no worries at all for me, my french brain doesn’t notice good or bad English 
That is amazing they respect your sobriety! I can understand it’s important to stay clean from alcohol while recovering from other addictions. Both trigger the other? I’ve had medicine’s addiction too after a decade of anti migraines pain killers, it was so hard to recover as well, but at that time I didn’t notice it was an addiction, doctor’s were prescribing them to me as the solution to my health issues. So tricky when I think about it…
Anyways, without it is better! I found other ways to get migraine almost free with diet and stress management.
I’m sorry your life went through such a terrible path recently. It’s hard to stay clean during those times, but you made the best decision for yourself in the end so that is great and yaaayy!!
Salut @Julyet !
Well, I used to be some sort of a straight edge young man. First drink or joint at 25 or something. After that I did get high all the time. My friends are real friends, for 30 years. If I tell them I don’t drink they just offer me something else. but they drink or smoke too much. Anyway, we’re french, you’re not really a man if you don’t get wasted you know 
I use them as a reminder of how bad and useless these substances are.
Every time I stopped smoking weed I get drunk for 2/3 days and quit that too. I really was into THC more than alcohol. For a few years i couldn’t take a puff without running to the local dealer the next morning 
It’s a great things that you can manage migraines without drugs. France is the wine country, and the drug country, doctors give you whatever you want to get fucked up all day long, no problem. Burying what causes problems underneath a pile of pills is our national sport.
Keep it strong! We got this
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