[Nightblood.]

If you're just hanging out with a couple friends, I'd suggest possibly having one person stay sober.

My friend and I both plan on getting drunk for the first time before summer, and we're going to do it at our friend's room and she doesn't plan on drinking anything. She's also more experience and knows when to make us stop, so she'll pretty much be babysitting us until we know what it's like/how much we can handle/what kind of person we are drunk etc. It might not be a bad idea, if you can, to possibly have someone do the same.