As stated previously, essentially every society on Earth has found ways to alter their consciousness (sometimes, not always involving drugs).
Pretty expansive "culture", huh?
Sorry for mistaking your intent; I assumed you to be interested in discussion related to solutions, rather than prefer to repeatedly meet logic arguments by pointing out how bad things are, and that they'll
never ever be better.
How constructive. -_-
This thread should go very far.
On a tangentially related note, everyone should check this out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibogaine