I'm pretty sure that it's not healthy to slit one's wrists either, and I don't really care how much pleasure it brings to people who think they need to inflict pain on themselves to "feel," I'm not about to try that either.
Literally comparing wrist slitting to one of the oldest cornerstones of human civilization.
Seriously, I have quite a bit of alcoholism in my family tree, and an addictive personality myself. You want to know the secret to not becoming an alcoholic?
-Don't drink when you're depressed.
-Don't drink alone.
-Don't drink very often. (duh)
-Very sparingly actually get drunk.
You can tone the second rule down a bit once you've learned your tolerances to 1 low-grav beer (ie-most things at the supermarket) in a day, maybe 2 if you really space it out. Don't do it every day, though. Hell, don't do that at all until after college (because we're all idiots in college).
Also don't drink and drive, but that really has nothing to do succumbing to alcoholism so much as not being stupid.
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"One toot on this whistle will take you to a far away land."
-Toad, SMB3