Excellent!!! Good job throwing out the drugs. The beginning of anything is hard. I can't relate to the drugs, because I was a straight drinker. I'd do pot if it came around when I was drunk, but I never did pot or all the men unless I was drunk. I would just really keep an eye on the blacking out. I know that it seems like alcoholics drink every day, but I was told its more what happened when I drank. I didn't black out during the week because I'd limit my drinks on work nights. But just about every weekend, I blacked out. I'm still trying to remember what happened after this one wedding. I remember drinking at the wedding, then drinking at the after party, and the last thing I remember was talking to some girl in an arm chair. Then I woke up in the morning in the back seat of my friend's jeep wwith the sun glaring down on me. I was parked out in front of my best friend's parent's house. I stumbled in after throwing open the door and screaming, why did you leave me in the jeep???? My friend's said they couldn't get me out. I mumbled that I was going to bed, and went and collapsed in a bedroom. All this while my friend's parents were having coffee over the morning paper. Yikes.

So just be really careful about the black outs. I shudder to think what I might have done in my blackouts. None of my friends who are normal drinkers have ever blacked out. That was one of my first indications that I had a problem.

I know there's an adult children of alcoholics forum here, have you checked it out?

Congrats again on throwing out the drugs!!

Hugs,
Rayna