sorry yogibooboo.
Look, I agree that it sometimes gets out of hand. I have seen guys drink in extremely irresponsible ways.
However, the most egregious cases we hear about are usually kids whose parents never taught them to drink responsibly and have now broken free of their shackles for the first time.
For example, the story which is published every year in the advertisements. The kid in the story drank three 8oz glasses of whiskey in a few minutes “because he didn’t feel anything yet”. Nobody who had ever drunk any amount of alcohol before would do that.
So as far as I am concerned, the moral of that story is to teach your kids how to drink.
I really don’t associate with the opinion that all drinking is bad always. It is certainly not what chazal say about purim, or the rest of the year.
I have gotten quite drunk every year since I was 15, and I never ended up in the hospital, nor did anything outrageous.