Used to be...
For most of the 1920s, a patient could get a prescription for one pint every 10 days about as easily as California patients can now get "recommendations" for medical marijuana. All it took to acquire a liquor prescription was cash — generally about $3, the equivalent of about $40 today — placed in the hand of an agreeable doctor. It cost $3 to $4 more to have it filled by the local pharmacist.
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/medicinal-alcohol-made-mockery-of-prohibition/1095789
Good thing pot was legalized just in time so we can all pay for it through Obamacare!
Last I heard, ethanol was still used to treat methanol poisoning.