I have some thoughts on this. I never drank until I was in my late twenties and it wa just social. Caught up to me when I was on pills and mixed this in. I grew up jn fear and never had a relationship with my father because he drank, dying from it. I had a fiancée who'd always had a couple boxes of wine in the fridge , ya really classy. Shed throw things at me and hit me. I lived in fear of her. Still I didn't drink.
I promised myself I'd never drink. I think pills altered my mind and opened up this poision to me.
Honestly I can't did one good reason to drink. I never knew anyone who said oh i got got trashed last night and a better cuz of it. It's an awful drug just makes you sad sick and u lose your soul to it.
I guess many drink to forget themselvs and be social but is best to work on that sober.