pretty grim and dystopian. but people have turned to substances since they figured out how to start a fire and inale smoke from a burning bush. or leave fruit to ferment in a cool dark place in some water. were probably talking hundreds of thousands of years of drug abuse by homo sapiens, and probably even earlier species of our clade. its just endemic to the human condition of consciousness and cerebral awareness of the constant lingering threat of death and suffering.
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