In response to my last poll, with these results

No drug addict should ever drink alcohol.
6 46.15%
Drug addicts can drink if they are careful and don't have a history of alcoholism. 2 15.38%
Drug addicts can drink when they have enough clean time.
0 0%
I don't know.
5 38.46%

I have made a new poll.

Just wondering... I dont think there is a black and white answer. For instance, I knew a guy who was given a drink of rum and coke as a prank. He had one sip then tasted the rum and spat it out. Still, he changed his clean/sober date...

I thought that was ridiculous. If anything, it showed how strong he was, that he could taste the alcohol and still resist it (and what an *** the guy who gave it to him was, knowing that he wasnt drinking).

I think it is a personal decision where to draw the line... one could quit one thing and start smoking twice as much, or get addicted to sex, or whatever else... I like the saying that your clean date is whenever you say it is. Black and white thinking means that anyone who has been in an accident and had to take pain meds wouldnt be in recovery. Or, taking the opposite approach, any drug addict who drank would be in recovery...

I have been clean for almost a year but if I counted alcohol, it would not be that long. But having been a homeless junkie, I do not want to discredit the amazing changes I have made. And I do not want to act like I do not think alcohol is dangerous--I know that it is dangerous.