alt Hacker NewsWe've also become a lot better at distilling high-proof alcohol, and at making it cheap enough that most people have the budget to get absolutely wasted on the regular.
Most people don't do that, but the option is there for anyone looking to make their life and the lives of people around them significantly worse.
Alcohol has never been expensive enough or hard enough to produce to prevent alcoholism. 3000 years ago average people were drinking alcohol daily.