This is not to sound callous to people to whom alcohol poses a threat. Everyone has his own poison. If you have issues with it stay away.
Me, I drink wine mostly. To food. When there's no food with it, I curiously prefer a coke. If I'm eating several courses on a night out, I can have 3-5 glasses and still not be drunk or chatty. Nor do I have a craving for another glass. And after, say, two days of having had more than a glass of wine to a home dinner, I don't feel like having wine on a third night and resort to coke or still water again.
I don't enjoy being drunk at all (not because of loss of control or any such thing, I just don't feel happier or better drunk) and I detest hangovers or throwing up (hasn't happened to me in decades).