I've lost all my friends after going to the psych ward and kicking weed. And I never felt like making friends in the psych ward (My best friend I met there though. The rest I've never contacted again.) And I've also had trouble making friends because they either do nothing fun or do drugs. Where I did make a lot of friends though was therapy. I'm now in a group of 5 with all of them psychosis as their background and it's really great. We support and understand each other. So I get you don't want to make friends at AA, but perhaps you can go to an alternative group therapy and look for friends there.