Many people tend to take them to forget their sorrows, what is more interesting is that being drunk is when they remember everything they want to forget.
Taking it without control is a problem, falling into alcohol is depressing, rather than the damage it causes to the voice is more worrying the damage it causes on the liver, it is unfortunate but perhaps people are unaware of the short, mediating and long term.
the information is for reflection, at the beginning of the story it seems that you are the protagonist (laughs), but I am glad to know that you do not consume alcoholic beverages.