Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
With my first pay cheque I sent my parents to Jamaica, so they actually got passports! They're pretty grounded; it wasn't until they saw the trailer for 'Battleship' that they were like, 'Ooh, this is a big movie, isn't it?'