Alcohol Is Safety.

Not because it is easy, because it often isn't, or because it is simple.  Again, no.  But because it is predictable.

It also allows, I think, a convenient way to face death, in whatever machination you want to chose (not necessarily easy, again, but possible).

Sterile dry full fledged non-alcoholic life is almost unbearable, and there's no telling where the fuck it will go, even as it is, from moment to moment, touchable, palpable.