High Treason ~ Since you dont' seem to be able to drink "just one" -- it sounds like you DO have a problem with alcohol. I can't call you an alcoholic -- only YOU can do that. But it's very possible you COULD be one. You have a good symptom of one.

Why not try some AA meetings and see what they have to say? You don't have to go along with everything they say -- take what you like and leave the rest. But ALOT of what they say makes sense. AA saved my life - literally. If I had kept drinking, I'd be dead right now. And I'm not kidding. They took me under their wings and got me sober -- and KEPT me sober.

And those "friends" of yours are just drinking buddies. How much you want to bet that once you quit drinking, they'll dump you? That's what happened with MY "drinking buddies." They didn't want a THING to do with me unless I was drinking. They weren't friends at all -- not in the TRUE sense of the word.

Go to some AA meetings please. Alcohol kills -- and I've been to too many funerals of people who wouldn't stop drinking. I don't want YOU to die. And if you don't stop drinking, you'll eventually DIE. Please don't die.