Maybe he is worried how he will cope with rejection or just a bad day without alcohol. They use the alcohol as such a crutch that it must be scary for them without it.
That is 100% true, it's very scary at first which is why the meetings are so important.
Me:40 W: 39 T: 17 years M: 15 years S-9 D-6 D final 11/10/2009
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."