My medical condition has significant impact on the pancreas and intolerance for alcohol runs in the family. I find that alcohol per se is not the big issue all by itself, though I'm not crazy about the stuff. A lot of alcoholic beverages have all kinds of poorly tolerated additives. Beer is full of yeast, which I don't do well with. Red wine is high in sulfur, which I don't do well with. The only alcohol I find that I tolerate okay is Kahlua. (Not that I have tried all options out there, but I did make an effort to try several different options and came up with nothing else I tolerated well.)

I did a lot of reading and tried a lot of different stuff to deal with my medical condition. Inflammation is a major component of my condition. I found that changing my diet with an eye towards correcting PH balance and removing foods that are inflammatory for other reasons did me enormous good and helped me get off multiple anti-inflammatory drugs. Not saying that going back to drinking would be a great idea, just saying that occasional alcohol isn't necessarily a big problem if you can address the problem effectively through other avenues.

That's the best I can do. I react allergically to marijuana and never tried any other recreational stuff.

Best of luck.