Some reframes that are helpful for some.

• Alcohol is poison. If alcohol is your thing, try a Whoop fitness band or similar tracker. Have peers who visually being able to see this helped them quit and stick with it. Others who got stuck on the idea that 'Alcohol is poison' every time they took a sip, and broke habits that way.

• Is that really who you are? Your human operating system is the story you tell yourself that guides your behaviors. You can write your own. If you do not write your own, usually someone else writes one for you. Your operating system can be a useful tool. Or a mental prison. There's no lock on that prison. You may see this applied in AA or NA by a sponsor. After being prompted to share your story they may hit you with that question, "Is that really who you are"? Can nudge someone into considering the question and re-writing their story into something more useful. A narrative running in the back of your mind works. This is what the military is doing with the Navy Seals Creed, useful example of one framework you can author your own.

• Systems are better than goals. "I'm not going to drink all week" is a goal. After a week, cool! I did it. Now what? That empty feeling afterwards is the place your goal used to be. Instead something like "I exercise 30 minutes every day" is a system. Every day you wake up with a new goal useful for motivation. This is the lever in your brain to create endless motivation. You can run as a system of subsystems, which through repetition become habits. One of those systems can be continuously roll bad habits into a slightly less bad habit. Over time this 1% better every day compounds into huge behavior changes.

Call me not a fan of waiting for some governance solution. I prefer my storytelling narrative to include nobody is going to do it for me, better to just start putting force behind the things I want for me. While we talk about funding maybe we can brainstorm more ways to take the edge off.