"Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish" (31:6). Is the chapter telling people to drink their troubles away?

The words are the mother's, in the middle of her warning to a king. Just before them she gives her reason why kings shouldn't drink: "lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted" (31:5). Then she says, "Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish, and wine to the bitter in soul" (31:6), and "Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more" (31:7). In Hebrew drink, and forget in 31:5 and drink, and forget in 31:7 are the same two words: the king is not to drink and forget the law, and of the one ready to perish she says, "Let him drink, and forget his poverty" (31:7). The chapter says no more about who is meant or why, and these notes don't add to it. The same book also says, "Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise" (Proverbs 20:1), where beer is the Hebrew word of strong drink here, and it asks, "Who has woe? Who has sorrow?" (Proverbs 23:29); the notes on Proverbs 23 look at that saying. The book holds all of these verses, and these notes apply none of them to anyone's drinking today. If these verses touch anyone whose own life or family drink has touched, make room to talk, and help them find someone they trust to talk to further, such as a pastor or a counselor.