Originally Posted by
SoberCAH 
Here in the US we seem to have a "shooter culture" among young people.
It's the norm, not the exception.
When I was a young man, around 40 years ago, the only people who drank shots were the heavy, heavy drinkers like me.
Now I see people doing them all the time at the club where I go for dinner quite a bit.
It's very pervasive.
And doing shooters is like free-basing alcohol.
People do shooters to get drunk.
I think it has changed a bit with the feeling that only alcoholics drink hard liquor, and only shady people and drunks go to bars from back in the day, but much has changed with all the fancy bars and clubs, designer drinks, and what not to make it appear more acceptable, even classy.