DRUG USE Buddy has a drink in a limo. Buddy offers to buy an airline employee a drink in the airport. She declines his offer, but we then see him having drinks with Mimi. In shock over the turn of events, Buddy pours himself a drink, but Jim takes the bottle away from him telling him he should take it easy with the drinking. In the aftermath of the airline crash, Buddy starts drinking more and eventually becomes an alcoholic as the months pass.
People drink at a party.
Seth admits to being a recovering alcoholic and catches Buddy nearly drinking the leftovers of someone's drink. We see Buddy emptying a bottle of liquor down his sink. Buddy jokes that next week Abby will be on heroin in response to hearing her plan about smoking cigarettes to get off nicotine gum. Abby has some wine. A man talking to Buddy at a barbeque holds a beer, while others later have wine.