Things to do when you're brand new.
Get a sponsor. Hang around a lot of meetings - clean and sober people. If you want to be a pro football player who do you hang with? Practice with, Work out with? If you want to be university educated, who do you hang with, study with?
Because if you want to be an active drunk or junkie, well I know who I was hanging with. And they have no place in my recovery until they seek treatment.
I don't have what it takes to babysit them while they hit bottom. And I don't need untreated fuctional alcoholics/addicts and non alcoholic/addicts telling me "Oh no you don't need to quit, you just need to slow down." Because I already tried that and there ain't no governor on my machine! Thank you sister Ignatia for the advent of the recovery centre.