Dry Drunk: Recovery's Darkest Hours

By Steven Warfield

The hardest part of recovery is not quitting. It is becoming someone new.

Dry Drunk explores one of the most overlooked and misunderstood phases of recovery: what happens when the substance is gone, but the mindset remains.

This book moves beyond sobriety as abstinence and examines the emotional, psychological, and behavioral patterns that can persist long after drinking or using stops. Irritability, restlessness, resentment, isolation-these are not failures of recovery, but signals of unfinished internal work.

Written with clarity and restraint, Dry Drunk does not offer a program or prescribe a path. Instead, it provides an honest reflection on the gap between being sober and truly living in recovery. It challenges readers to confront the subtle ways addiction can continue to shape thinking, relationships, and identity.

Part of The Politics of Addiction series, this book is for those who have stopped using-but recognize that stopping was only the beginning.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GS9Q9ZJX
• ISBN13: 9798994940839
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Steven Warfield
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.3" x 8.0"