Drinking occurs in Muslim and Mormon households. Some are okay with it. Some have immense guilt for perceived sins, which can feed into a negative feedback loop in alcoholism, other substance abuse issues, and mental health issues. The advertising industry has blood on its hands where alcohol is concerned, at least, but alcohol is addictive enough to bring addicts out of the woodwork.[0]

Alcohol is also a part of society and culture. It’s neither good nor bad inherently. It’s only bad to use it against your own moral code, or that of others, or that of your local jurisdiction. What you do with that abuse potential is up to you.

Please drink responsibly, if you do at all. Drinking’s perceived minor heart benefits give people license to drink when they may not otherwise, to little benefit. However, social drinking is an opportunity to socialize, and with the intent on the socializing, the potential harms for overindulgence can be curbed. It’s easier to not get addicted to begin with.

You have to be able to stop drinking for your choice as to when and why you drink to hold water, or your drink of choice.

Cheers, HN.

[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/add.13284

Some just replace it with something else. In my experience khat culture is effectively identical to drinking culture in much of the ME and in ME enclaves in Western nations.

Israel and India are below some Muslim countries in alcohol consumption per capita [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_c...

So are muslim cultures, at least the ones that I'm familiar with.