>>511037560This is actually completely accurate - the metabolites don't leave your system for 72 hours, I have that straight from a former addiction counselor. The kind that solves problems rather than creating them, now moved on to different forms of problem-solving.
>>511037626This. I just don't touch hard liquor because I always regret it. Wine, beer, mead, cider, sake, whatever else that was fermented, so long as it's not bottom-shelf swill and doesn't cause awful hangovers? I drink for a bit, have fun, and then, if I am home, go the fuck to sleep. Minimal issues, I can cut myself off for a few weeks as needed. Never gotten so drunk around others that it turned into an actual issue. Or blacked out and done anything of consequence even alone, when I was drinking more heavily back in the day.
Getting that drunk was also retarded, not to mention expensive, so I stopped doing it.