I'm listening to a tape that is stating how dangerous it is for alcoholics to sponsor drug addicts and drug addicts to sponsor alcoholics. it maintains that addiction is not addiction ... that like needs to support like, down to drug of choice. this is something that caught my attention because it is something that i have worried about with my sponserees ... there is no question in my mind that i am a marijuana addict. i am also a pill addict. i am a borderline cocaine and ecstasy addict... i was certainly going there real fast. however, i also know that i did not pass that "line in the sand" with alcohol. i drank to excess. i blacked out. i made terrible decisions due to drinking. but alcohol never had me in a death grip the same way that the drugs did. i do not ever want to drink again because i feel sure that i would get there in time. and i know from painful experience that drinking leads me right back to drugs. i do not have another recovery from drugs in me.
my question is this: is it wrong for me to sponsor a woman with much different experience from me? i.e. no drugs, but alcohol had her by the neck in the death grip ... in a way that i cannot understand?