In my experience alcoholics and drunkards are a very small minority - as in I don't know anybody. Zero, and I'm not a mormon. So shall we forbid it your way or

In my experience alcoholics and drunkards are a very small minority - as in I don't know anybody. Zero, and I'm not a mormon. So shall we forbid it your way or let it just be my way? That's why there are official statistics (NIH, NHS, or whatever every country calls them), to use them and not rely on some person own agenda. And instead of recommending a rehash of a failed policy (prohibition, war on drugs, etc) we should rather recommend treatment for those needing it. Or is this the same discussion as with the US public healthcare, where we would implement anything else than actually solving problems for those with problems?