Larry was on the dart team and the bowling team for the local bar.  Maybe it was because he had been doing this for the last twelve years, but playing darts and bowling with the same people was getting old.  And to make matters worse, every time he bowled or played darts, he drank like a fish.  Although his unrest had been brewing somewhere in his mind for a few years what really brought the situation to a head was a radio program he listened to the other night entitled “alcohol abuse prevention and your health.” 

The first thing Larry did after hearing this program was to quit bowling and playing darts.  He then signed up for a ballroom dancing class and registered for an adult education class about astronomy.  Since neither of these classes had anything to do with drinking, his weekly alcohol consumption dropped way down to one or two drinks during the entire week.  After a few months of this routine, he started to feel more energy and felt better physically and mentally than he had in many years.  In a word, Larry figured out a way to practice alcohol abuse prevention in his life.