Exactly. When I started drinking it was embarrassing to get "pissed", shameful even. Drunk yes, but it was seen as a good thing to be able to handle your drink. Now it seems the name of the game is to get utterly wankered and do stupid stuff, while being filmed. Not my idea of a good night. But...
Luckily my vices in life have rarely gone further than beer. A brief period of smoking weed in my teens, a few pills and some mushrooms here and there in my early twenties but never anything like crack or heroin. To be fair there have been a couple of times in my life when I know the booze has...