Stop the medications asap. You are trading one bushel of problems for another bushel of crap that is even more rotten.
Discourage past drinking buddies from coming around unless they are ready to quit and need your help.
Sitting around feeling sorry for yourself? There is much to be done. Too few hands to do it.
Suggestions
Get off your butt and DO something productive.
Walk, exercise, go pick up trash along the road, help a neighbor clean up their yard, clean your house or apartment and throw crap away, paint a room an outrageous color, plant a small garden, drink lots of water and eat fresh veggies and cut back on heavy meals of meat or starches in your diet. Your body and soul needs to heal. You need to feed both to get better.
Do something nice for someone you hurt in the past and ask them for their forgiveness and help on the path to your new life.
Decide that YOU are in charge of your life. No one is to blame for your life or your circumstances. Blaming others is a LIBERAL thing. Your life is what you make it. Make it GOOD!
Your path and future are only limited by your imagination and now that you are alcohol free your creativity can be unleashed.
You have taken the first step and feel uncertain. Take deep lung fulls of air and head down the road. Reach out to family members and ask them for help and support.
Stop the medications asap! But talk to your doctor about it.
Don't relapse! If you do, pick yourself up and realize that a mis-step does not destroy the journey you have undertaken.
I'm not much of a praying man, but I'll say one for you.
You CAN do it. No one else can do it for you. Believe in YOU!
I would just caution our friend who is under a doctor's care to not to stop taking any medication unless his doctor is part of that decision. There are many different conditions that could mean the medication is an absolute requirement and none of us know your medical history, and you must assume that none of us are doctors.
The rest of your advice is spot on...