I am sober, permanently and unconditionally, not by ignoring or battling that urge to drink, but by recognizing the heck out of it. Push it to the front, turn the lights up, set up the microphones and sound system, all focus on the AV.
Separate your AV from all the tangle around it, whether it is fear, or anger, or frustration, anxiety, boredom, whatever. Cut it away and push it up on stage, front and center. This lets us see it for what it is - our addiction, our desire for pleasure and numbness, the buzz. These are thoughts, for heavens' sake, nothing more than thoughts, and thoughts that will kill us if we let them.
Recognize them, become aware of them without judgement or emotion. Then, they shrink, start to whimper and then dry up. Just like a bad comedian onstage who is dry and dying. Pathetic. Phhhhhhhht.