Moral Dilemma: The Drink

The simple solution to your issue is that you need to avoid the kind of people that don't understand your commitment or your wish not to do drugs and drink.

I said "Simple" not easy.

The people you talked about that drink anyway are not "practicing" they stopped when they started drinking, so you can discount maybe doing that.

Path seems clear no matter what faith you are.

Question is, are ya strong enough to do it?

I agree. I partied pretty hard when i was young. After I got out of the service ,started up with the same old gang down that same old street. One morning after an all nighter of booz and dope, I woke up on the floor of a freinds house. I looked around the room at the bodies passed out everywhere the room filled with smoke from what ever. It hit me like a ton of bricks. We'll probably do this next week end and the next and so on on. I asked myself if this is what i wanted in life. the answer was, this is not the way I was raised. I got up walked out and got into my Challenger (72). That morning I cut all ties with my old freinds. I started a new life and didn't look back. Easy , no. If they can't respect your feelings, then their not freinds. You owe them NOTHING!