Doesn't matter go back Great Depression & Alcohol "Prohibition" that brought the "Mob" into "Power" selling bootleg booze and gambling, some dope but not as popular back then for drugs market yet "everybody" DRANK, and "Gambled"..
Let's fast forward that 40/50 years the 1970s/1980s..
Drugs became a "Scourge" a Plague by the 1980s "CRACK" hit the Streets of America..
Today 2020s it's "Fentanyl " cheap easy "synthetic " but "DEADLY" and easily "Mixed" with anything