Setting out to get drunk. -Therefore I am in control of my drinking?

Chapter 3. MORE ABOUT ALCOHOLISM page 37
We now see that when we began to drink deliberately, instead or casually,
there was little serious or effective thought
during the period of premeditation
of what the terrific consequences might be.

Chapter 3. MORE ABOUT ALCOHOLISM page 37
But even in this type of beginning
we are obliged to admit
that our justification for a spree
was insanely insufficient
in the light of what always happened.

So.. no.