There is a another option, you can go to all the places (and more) and do all the things(and more) that you have done in the past without drinking. The AV is only the option limiter.
You don't really believe that that the only two choices in life are between being alone, sad and sober or being 'forced' to drink, do you ? That bleak(and false) dichotomy is pure AV, it's bs.