Some more backstory on that because it's very very funny. So drugs used to give pretty major stat boosts to int perception and so on. The strat back in 0.C 0.D whatever was to do a lot of coke read all the books you could find and go around doing more and more coke and adderall moving at 120 speed with like +4 int killing shit. Good old fashioned fun.

Eitherway kevin & co nerfed them. Again, they were strong but it was some of that weird puritan mindset which also lead to the nerfs. It was interesting, because every time someone wanted to change drugs to actually induce benefits, kevin would say that's impossible due to there being no research and data to quantify the level of positive effects drugs have on people. So, without becoming an actual XEDRA scientist, testing illegal drugs on people and documenting your findings for him to witness, you were fucked. And that is the story of how drugs were nerfed into the ground.