[codewithcheese]

Doctors should not prescribe alcohol. From a health and safety point of view, yes one should not consumer alcohol.

[xkcd-sucks]

Ethanol is the safest, cheapest, and best-studied intervention for acute methanol poisoning though

[yebyen]

I don't think this is relevant to the reason why most people are using ethanol, though... or most of the people using Ambien for that matter, at least is the impression I get from reading the discussion thread on this post!