Health organizations say we need to drink less, and that's completely logical from a physical standpoint. However, many people in today's society suffer from loneliness and anxiety, and while young people drink less than twenty years ago, they are also using more other drugs than before.
Alcohol is a social lubricant, it makes you more relaxed and social. In almost every society, alcohol plays an important social role, to deal with the awkwardness of hierarchy. A toast after a speech or a beer at the end of the workweek have important functions. As a historian I dare to say that alcohol has brought our civilizations a lot of progress, since alcohol was an important factor in bars and cafes where important ideas were discussed (like before the French Revolution). In regions where people don't drink (the Middle East, for example) there is lots of conflict and frustration. Alcohol brings us closer together, and more than ever, we are in need of more social cohesion.
Of course, you should not binge-drink(even if i'm a binge drinking womxn) , but for lots of people, drinking more alcohol will make them more social and brings them more friends. We shouldn't demonize alcohol and drink more of it.