www.alcoholscreening.org

This looks like a very well intended site. From the "Learn-More" part of the http://www.alcoholscreening.org/ site where they recommend drinking in moderation:

What is Moderation?
Women: No more than one drink a day
Men: No more than two drinks a day
(This limit is based on differences between the sexes in both weight and metabolism.)

Count as a Drink ...
12 ounces of regular beer (150 calories)
5 ounces of wine (100 calories)
1.5 ounces of 80-proof distilled spirits (100 calories)

If you think there is indeed a reason to drink alcohol at all, these are probably reasonable guidelines. Of course, very few people that drink really follow anything close to these limits and starting to drink at an early tends to drive heavier drinking as one ages. The site also states the that fact that "some studies suggest that older people may become more sensitive to the effects of alcohol as they age". Given the risks and no indicatin of any real benefit, why even bother with the limits set by the US Department of Health and Human Services quoted above.

Alcohol Increases Partner Violence

A study about violence within intimate relationships, published in January 2010, has been referenced in a few different articles lately. I actually heard about it on the radio when Dr Dean Edell referenced it. They studied 436 US couples and found a direct relationship between alcohol usage and violent behavior that actually went both ways. The surprising finding was that female on male violence doubled when the women drank. Not so surprising was that the male on female violence tripled when alcohol was involved. The study, which appears online and in the April issue of the journal Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research, was co-authored by Dr. Raul Caetano is jarring because of the data about the women involved. However, it should not surprise anybody that alcohol changes your personality. Just another reason to make a conscious decision to avoid recreational alcohol.

Why bother with alcohol?!?