Jog in the same cardinal direction until you black out. Buy a baking steel and become obsessed with sourdough pizza. Anything to not drink. JAMES OLSTEIN
Maybe you’re tired of explaining the return on investment of Steel Reserve to freshmen. Maybe you’re uncertain whose puke that is. Maybe you finally turned 21 and realized drinking is less cool when it’s more legal. Maybe you are dangerously close to not graduating and you’re wondering if you should quit your bullshit and clean up.
Where do you start? Alcoholics Anonymous helps loads of people. Others get well in treatment centers. But if talking with a group about alcohol and drugs makes you want to do all the substances, then you could follow your own program, like I did. Here are some steps that have made my 3,000-plus sober days less sucky, listed in loose order.