The purpose of drinking and doing drugs is to dull your awareness of your mental pain. Does the drug do that? If it does then there is no further use for antidepressants.
“The purpose of drinking”
Maybe of one is an alcoholic. As for the rest of us, we like it, it is fun, it is delicious, and if on occasion we over-indulge, it’s OK.
Timothy Leary, when he was still working as a “doctor”, administered LSD to patients to ween them off of alcohol.
Have to wonder if the “cure” is better than the disease sometimes.