Medication is used to treat diseases. Feeling like a fuck-up isn't a disease, and even if it was alcohol would probably be one of the last medicines a physician would prescribe. It's the opposite of a medicine, it's a poison in fact.
I don't buy the smoking/drugs thing because hundreds of years ago (much less thousands) they didn't have pills or pot. And they didn't chew on mushrooms, either. They just had lives. So you can call it something, I call it getting drunk, but jeez medication is a pretty damn far cry no matter how many people before you parroted it.
It's because nobody monitors them. They just install a shitty commenting system and never check the comments again, ever. If they actually policed the comment sections, it wouldn't be nearly as bad.
On the other hand, I have definitely learned something from commenters. Frequently, the news leaves out important context or outright lies due to its left-wing bias, and the commenters lay out the true story. Local corruption cases especially benefit from this extra information.
Fun fact: which was worse, Richard Nixon's abuse of federal power by ordering a break-in at Democratic Party HQ, or the IRS' abuse of federal power by Lois Lerner and her henchmen? Nixon knew what he did was wrong, was about to get impeached, and had the grace to resign. Does Obama realize that what his people did was wrong?
The next person to mention spaghetti stacks to me is going to have his head knocked off. -- Bill Conrad