With the understanding that addiction is a disease and the realization that we are powerless over it as well as over people's lives, we are ready to do something useful and constructive with our own.
Then, and only then can we be of any help to others.
Wish I lived close by. I go to meetings and it doesn't really bother me to go alone any more (after that first one). But it sure would be more fun to have people to go with, and hang out with afterwards. Jay