Unless I went to this Dr. specifically to help me reduce my drinking, and he said that moralistic/psycho-babble crap to me, I’d change doctors.
All of that medical school must blind them to the fact that free human beings make choices about the health risks they want to take, and everyone’s primary purpose in life is not longevity for its own sake.
Any literate person in a developed country HAS the information. We know: one drink per day at most; at least twenty minutes of exercise, three times a week; a low fat diet with an eye to caloric intake; no smoking of any kind; no drugs; drink plenty of fluids, etc. etc. Yet doctors waste their precious nine-and-a-half minutes with their patients telling them this same routine.
Most people aren’t unhealthy because they lack information–they are unhealthy because they have chosen unhealthy activities.
It is not the doc’s purpose to prevent human folly, but to treat its effects.
Just my two cents 
--sorry to hijack–and don’t bother with the cost to society argument–we’re all gonna die of something, and I’ve seen how longevity creates VERY expensive end-of-life costs.