Many consider getting drunk, premarital sex and such to be a normal part of growing up. Many young people smoke, get drunk and have illicit six because they equate such activities with adulthood. The crucial thing that people have been ignoring is God's attitude toward drunkards and drunkenness. God's holy will is infallibly and unchangeably revealed in the Bible. Many people get drunk in order to escape reality.
Some people get drunk for fun, while others want to forget their problems.
People who get drunk have rejected God's created human consciousness in favor of a chemically altered consciousness. God created man straight and sober. It is foolish and sinful to damage our minds. It is an insult to God to destroy our bodies. God does not want us to run from our problems.