By Evan Glass
“You can’t ever drink again?”
This is what I asked my girlfriend after she told me about her alcoholism. For some reason I thought alcoholics, after they recover, could drink again. We had been dating for all of two days before she had a drinking episode that forced her into the hospital, AA meetings and to accept the fact that she was an alcoholic. After she told me about this episode, my stomach dropped. I was nervous, as I was not fully aware of the severity of her disease at the time.