It’s always a personal choice, but I wouldn’t equate the two in any way because alcohol is a neurotoxin, carcinogen and doesn’t scale or compound the more it’s practiced.

It doesn’t mean I might not have a drink, but I’m aware it’s triggers a “get the poison out” response from my body.

Disengaging the prefrontal cortex is one thing, lowering the inhibitions and increasing emotional volatility in the rest of the brain is hugely different.

Those things can vary between people.

Understanding we chan shift our default mode network is critical.

Meditation actually increased the connection between areas like the amygdala and prefrontal cortex allowing you to have greater calm, focus while at peace minus the racing thoughts and emotions.

Having an overdeveloped amygdala is fairly common resulting in an under developed prefrontal cortex.

Luckily neuroscience is showing the past few years that neuroplasticity is available to everyone to continue improving for their entire life.

To be clear, I'm not in any way endorsing alcohol use. It's a carcinogen with no safe consumption level. I'm merely suggested that both seem to have at least one thing in common: quieting down the workings of the prefrontal cortex.