People have drunk alcohol for thousands of years for some reason or other. barbituates and amphetamines go back nearly a century now (they were pretty popular b

People have drunk alcohol for thousands of years for some reason or other. barbituates and amphetamines go back nearly a century now (they were pretty popular by WWII). Barbituates were pretty unsafe and were pretty much replaced by the benzodiazepines by the 90's I think. That is to say that these drugs, pressures, and medical issues predate the software industry.