I don't normally, but there's this computer that tracks the overall sentiment of the 'net for the last few years (You may have seen it in one of those "The Nostradamus Effect" shows). It indicates that the overall sentiment is very negative...I'm going to do searches for only positive things. Probably just a drop in the universe, but I'm going to try to not add to the negativity.
Drinking, but not to get drunk. Medicinal purposes...a piece of chicken that I bit down on for lunch had a piece of bone in it & my tooth is killing me.
I would offer that the "penultimate alpha" is James Bond. Bond doesn't get drunk. Or as another alpha, "Harry Callahan" said, "A Man's got to know his limitations."
And a Man's got to be stronger than his desires.