I get that you see a supernatural dimension to the drug problem, and I agree that is too often unmentioned, but drug abuse also has to be addressed on the practical level of laws and police enforcement, controls over access and availability, and prevention and rehabilitation.
You throw a lot of unnecessary and dysfunctional-leading stuff into the mix and tell me to accept it as a basket deal.
No deal.
We need to ask squarely: why wasn’t this a scandal in America in 1900. Not that the problem wasn’t a problem elsewhere by then (cf. the China opium wars).