Don’t You Need a Month Without Drinking?
The idea behind dry January and the unchecked alcoholism to check
6 min readJan 8, 2021
According to AA, the first step is to admit and accept that you are an alcoholic. I have never been to an AA meeting and I don’t identify as an alcoholic, but I imagine that this first step might be the hardest of all — in their 12-step program to fight alcohol addiction.