I think the biggest difference is really that those who enjoy a drink and actually enjoy it, are one thing, but those who 'need' a drink, are another entirely.
I work with people who definitely fall / fell, into the latter camp and it's not funny, it's not comfortable to be around them. Drunken midnight phone calls, drunken rages and aggressive 'socialising', are not relaxing.
It'd be excellent if in our culture people who got drunk became calmer, sleepier, peaceable; unfortunately the opposite is more often the reality.
Of all the meets I've been at, only one had a problem with drink taken to extremes. It's been dealt with and is more than unlikely to happen again.
However, outside of bushcraft meets, I have been at a camp where a drunk threw his girlfriend into the fire after she spilled his glass, another where an idiot opened up his thigh with a knife when carving, one where a fight broke out and two men rolled into the fire, another where a persistant letch let the drink be his excuse for invading the tent of a young lady who had no intention of spending any time with him.....though that's even handed, I know of one female who really should be arrested for groping when she's too many sheets to the wind
Fun's fun, but the hell with nonsense.
Toddy