The American Enterprise Institute published a notecard-sized piece they call the "success sequence", which I think would fit your bill. [1]
1. Finish high school.
2. Get (and keep) a full-time job once you finish school.
3. Get married before you have children (if you have children).
Their analysis concluded that 97% of millennials in the US who follow this three step sequence are not poor by the time they reach 31 or so.
There isn't anything specific in that sequence about drugs, but I imagine the subgroups for whom drug use would be problematic would also find it hard to follow that sequence while using them.
[1]: https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IFS-Millennia...