If you go to the Bull Run Restaurant in Shirley, Ma, or to the Fruitlands Museum (Bronson Alcott, etc) in Harvard Ma, you will see a tableau depicting the drunkard's progress. This is not one session, but the progression of the unfortunate sinner, from beginning to the end, as clouded by memory :

1) a drink with a friend
2) a drink to keep out the cold
3) merriment and laughter
4) wine and food
5) the summit attained, good friends and good cheer, etc
6) drunk and riotous
7) shunned by all decent people
8) poverty and disease
9) death by suicide

take heed, do not shingle the rumseller's roof!

MD