"The Virtues of Drunkenness"

Who has woe?
Who has sorrow?
Who has strife?
Who has complaining?
Who has wounds without cause?
Who has redness of eyes?

Those who tarry long over wine;
those who go to try mixed wine.

Do not look at wine when it is red,
when it sparkles in the cup
and goes down smoothly.

In the end it bites like a serpent
and stings like an adder.
Your eyes will see strange things,
and your heart utter perverse things.

You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea,
like one who lies on the top of a mast.

“They struck me,” you will say, “but I was not hurt;
they beat me, but I did not feel it.

When shall I awake?
I must have another drink.”
(Proverbs 23:29-35 ESV)

If I'm reading this right, there aren't any virtues to drunkenness. Just broken lives, broken homes, broken dreams, broken promises, broken bones, and amnesia. When I shall awake I'll do it all again. What? YOu can't be serious. You could call this section of Proverbs "what the breweries don't want you to know." But God wants us to know.

There is probably nothing in this world that has caused more heartache and family breakups than alcohol. I'm not writing this to tell you what to do, I'm writing this to tell you what scripture wants you to know about the dangers and deceitfulness of alcohol. Why don't I drink? I want nothing to do with something that is associated with so much evil, hurt, violence and debauchery. Yes some will think I'm out of touch. That may be true, But as I read these verses in Proverbs these are things I want to be out of touch with. I don't want these things in my life or any where near my family. There are no virtues to drunkenness. "That's all I have to say 'bout that".
http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevindeyoung/2011/08/25/sobering-report-on-college-drinking/