I'm not denying that. And I suspect we might well agree about the roots of the problem, and the kind of things that would help eliominate or reduce it.

But whether it's our boozy sessions, or less legal substances, then or now, it's not the drugs themself that are the real problem, it's the way they get used, and the various way society deals with them.

And being full of hope and optimism didn't mean a lot of us weren't full of other stuff often enough.