“Ask a Former Drunk” is a five-part advice series running on Tuesdays. Read last week’s installment here.

“Ask a Former Drunk” is a five-part advice series running on Tuesdays. Read last week’s installment here.

Last year, I wrote a memoir about my long, tortured love affair with alcohol and my decision to quit at 35. The book was called Blackout. Since then, I’ve received mountains of correspondence from people who have their own complicated issues with alcohol, and each Tuesday, for the next four weeks, I’ll be answering…