Here’s a sobering thought as I’m mid-way through Dry January: There are more than 13,000 people on the waitlist for a liver transplant—and until now, if you happened to live in New York or California, it could take several years for your turn to come up (assuming you don’t die first).

But other people—less sick people—who live in parts of the Midwest or the South have been able to get liver transplants in a few weeks or months.