Alcohol consumption is <i>obviously</i> not healthy from a purely physiological perspective, but it seems that the negative effects of infrequent use are mild enough and likely outweighed by the social benefits for many people. Difficult to verify experimentally.
Andrew Huberman had a podcast that helped me "step away" from alcohol: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkS1pkKpILY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkS1pkKpILY</a>