[toxicFork]

I don't think you should recommend this. Using alcohol (or xanax from the other comment) to treat symptoms (e.g. to relax) can lead to having it as a crutch. Additionally when you get rid of a symptom of a problem will mean you will have less motivation to eliminate the root cause of problem in the first place (e.g. if someone bullies you, it's easier to "just have a beer" rather than report it or speak to them, or find out ways not to get traumatised in the first place).

Using crutches like this can lead to psychological addiction, because if the situation does not improve the person can too easily choose to "have more beers".

Of course there's also the chemical addiction to alcohol which will be even worse.