I have no idea how it'll read for you, but the philosophy that I carry to simply not drink is "this situation is bad, but at least I don't have to navigate it drunk."
I've never had a problem with desire for alcohol, so my philosophy never got "pressure tested." But I imagine drinking like a scaling debuff to strength, constitution, charisma, wisdom, intelligence, and dexterity in the DnD of life. Like if I encounter a problem and I have to use any of those, I don't want to have to navigate a -2 to my rolls. If my keys fall in the sewer, maybe I can intuit a way to fish them out or I can take the constitution hit and jump in after them. But if I were drunk I'd just sit there going sigh godammit!
In a sense, I imagine drinking for problems like going "could this get any worse?!" and then thunder cracks, rain starts pouring, & laugh track plays.