RABBI WEIN A Sobering Lesson Parshas Part 2 5778 (Torah.org)

The deleterious effects of alcohol abuse are clearly evident in this week’s parsha. Noach, after the trauma of the great flood and the destruction of his society and world, somehow drowns his sorrows in wine and becomes drunk and loses control over himself. From that incident, further tragedies, curses and disasters arise until it seems that the entire exercise of the flood seems to have been purposeless and irrelevant.