Some 19th century romantics and beatnik writers went on about tortured, artistic souls and their double edged but ultimately damaging relationships with drugs. So we're stuck being forever subjected to these stories about downward spirals and tortured souls. See any movie about drugs.
Newsflash: drug use and drug users are not interesting. The vast majority of drug users are normal people with a normal boring relationship with drugs. That is, they do drugs for fun and it has no meaningful bearing on anything else in their life. These endless stories about whiny nut-jobs who can't keep their shit together wrapping themselves in the mystique of drugs annoy me to no end.
Newsflash: drug use and drug users are not interesting. The vast majority of drug users are normal people with a normal boring relationship with drugs. That is, they do drugs for fun and it has no meaningful bearing on anything else in their life. These endless stories about whiny nut-jobs who can't keep their shit together wrapping themselves in the mystique of drugs annoy me to no end.