> Alcohol use among high school seniors in the US is on the decline, so is use of any “illicit” drug.

Sounds wholesome, but is probably just the symptom of people going out and socializing less, resulting in increased isolation and loneliness.

hard to say. looking at me and my friends - we've got more time to socialize, plenty of friends, yet people drink less, and definitely use less tobacco(it's really unsexy to smoke cigarettes now, and vaping in public is just embarrassing), because we're more health focused. I have to admit I'm a regular user of psychedelics. drugs are decriminalized where I'm from. unless there will be long term consequences, i don't think it impacted me in any bad way, frankly the opposite, albeit "wasting" some time with friends.

According to Pew, teen alcohol consumption has been in decline since 1997.

> Perhaps the most irresponsible illustration of this is Elon Musk who has made his substance use so overt I think it wrongly and perhaps dangerously couples using to entrepreneurial success.

oh come off it, what substance abuse? he toked on a blunt on JRE once (clearly barely inhaled and even then, so what) and has a few bourbons with his brother on yearly retreats? please provide more info about this, because i've never, ever taken musk to be that sort of guy.

Ah yes a glass of red wine is "substance use", as a French that's a good one.

From a french to another, a glass of red wine spiced up with benzos absolutely is substance use, and an extremely dangerous kind.

My bad, I read "Ambient" and thought it was the kind of records he listened to...

Think the supposed problem here is mixing wine with sleeping pills.

Yeah I missed that part, didn't know about "Ambien" and thought it was "Ambient" music with a typo