[kergonath]

> which is about the most harmful drug ever for every system in your body

I am not saying that alcohol is good for you or anything, but that is not even wrong. It’s trivial to find drugs that kill you or nuke your liver if you get a few milligrams.

> also has a relatively small margin between lethality and and recreational doses.

Unless by "recreational dose" you mean a whole bottle of 40% ABV spirits, not really. And even then. IIRC the lethal dose is around 7g/kg, which is more than a pint of pure ethanol for someone weighting 70kg, or twice the amount of alcohol in the bottle. This is not a particularly small margin of error, particularly considering that the hypotheses were conservative.

It is possible to kill oneself with alcohol. It is nowhere near the dose commonly taken for recreative purposes.