We need better … chemistry. Alcohol is a straight up damn sledgehammer. It’s brutal on the body.
Wanting to take the edge off is natural. It’s human. What’s sad is that the one legal (almost?) everywhere tool we have for doing this is… 7 thousand years old so it’s good that it is well and truly tested and all… but also still very much like banging on your head with a hammer. 
(This is also why I’m glad THC is being legalized so many places. Thank god. And having used THC (it’s legal here), it’s not even that interesting a drug and certainly not worthy of the demonization it got. If you compare the massive trauma to society caused by Alcohol and replaced all that with THC… my god, we could have saved so many people. So many!)
