6. Do not drink to excess

Another no brainer. Broadly speaking, your self-preservation reflexes are dulled to the point that you cannot protect yourself from falls and minor events that you normally would easily be able to avoid and you wind up in the ED. Another side of drinking too much is the loss of executive function and the making of errors of judgment sometimes mild or embarrassing like drunk texting, other times like driving or weapons discharge that are truly life changing. It is not heroic to drink to excess.