I have to agree especially with your third third paragraph. I am finding that friends of mine are picking up drugs and alcohol again at around age 50 even thoug

I have to agree especially with your third third paragraph. I am finding that friends of mine are picking up drugs and alcohol again at around age 50 even though they became sober post college. I suspect it is the emotional pain of poor life choices, feeling irrelevant, and no savings due to not being as educated as the new economy demands. I lost a friend suicide and what perplexes me is why to do depressed people gravitate towards depressants like alcohol and Vicodin?