If you're out of "The Beer Market" and looking for good alternatives that taste good, will get you tanked up, and be relatively cheap, try my favorite mixed drink, a Mouthwash. Essentially, it is 1/2 Peppermint Schnapps, 1/2 7-Up (best on ice, but not mandatory). Very good. Kind of has a candy cane taste to it.
Also, a friend of mine found a drink called "Pimp Juice" (I think he said he found it in a Playboy interview with Nelly). Anyways, it's a 1/3 Malibu rum, 1/3 peach shnapps, 1/3 pineapple juice (IIRC). Very sweet taste but it'll get you f***ed up fast.
As for the negative stuff in you're life, I'm sorry about all that. Just remember that without the valleys, the peaks wouldn't seem so high. Everyone's got to go through rough times. Makes life worth living, in the long run.