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by Apocryphon 1392 days ago
It precedes the 90s quite a bit. A “modern” form of the phenomenon was postwar America embracing self-medication: my U.S. history teacher pointed out in The Invasion of the Body-Snatchers the characters are constantly popping pills or swilling highballs offhandedly, as that was how it was done in the day.