If you look at the articles I linked, it's actually the opposite. Black people are almost twice as likely to report not drinking as white people. Alcohol use also increases with socioeconomic status: https://www.alcoholrehabguide.org/blog/socioeconomic-status-....

that's probably because drinking in the US is very expensive.

which is a form of prohibitionism in itself, but didn't stop people from binge drinking.

Here in Italy, where wine is very cheap, you don't see people drinking like the Americans do, especially not adult people.

Kids, maybe, sometimes, we have a problem with young people binge drinking, mostly because they gathered those habits from American culture which massively influence their daily content consumption.

Back in the day the American culture my generation has been exposed to was very different about who drank on screen and why.