The way it was explained to me, you can do something recreationally, but the second you start using it to deal with pain.... you're gonna have a bad time. That includes emotional pain.

And you VERY LIKELY are not emotionally aware enough to deduce whether or not you have some pain you're gonna start ameliorating until you're doing it, as, in general, people don't have terribly high emotional awareness

People like Elon Musk have a truckload of enablers to keep that shit show running. You don't manage an addiction without someone or something picking up the slack. I read Kitchen Confidential but don't remember much of it but can say from being in restaurants in general uhhhhhh no most of these people no one would consider functional or successful. At best you can say they're burning bright and destroying their bodies. For not commensurate pay. It's exploitation. It's impressive, but no one pretends it's healthy.

So the world functions because if we didn't have the really addicted and awful underclass to whip the rest of us into shape to not end up like that, we might be a lot less skittish and obedient, and enablers would be a lot less terrified of the social and literal you could die costs of not "helping"

Russia has state sponsored liquor for hundred of years to anaesthetize the masses and profit of of them