Religion is the opiate of the fascists. The grain is too thin, and the material breaks. It is too similar. Not enough chaos in a system weakens it to being prone to sudden discontruction. When you see yourself bleed and feel the pain, at least you have broken the illusion, the dead-somnolence of life that wants to turn us into wax.
Drugs are like that.
Drugs put you away, but then you really are cut off, and all you can do is mock. Drugs are an addiction filler, like religion, politics, or any other ordering system designed around static rules and linear behaviors. This weakness comes from human fear, and our fear to bond together, and then fear collectively those who appear unwilling to accept our order. We, the humanity, fear the unpredictable, the ambiguous. We deny the influence of the control-needs of the herd.