Use "hit the bottle" in a sentence

1. In Cairns we rented a caravan on a vacant lot near a beach and Esther hit the bottle by day and told me her life story, such as it was, at night

2. when men hit the bottle and take drugs, it’s then that their women and children are massacred right and left, by the poor misunderstood guys!

3. It would have been easy to hit the bottle but I had a good upbringing whereby you face what you have done and sort it out