You know, there is something disturbing about this statement of yours - because we see in it the origin of the Drug War on the Citizenry. You: I am a pillar of the community! I forbid you from being self-indulgent! I will lock you up should you choose to be so! Your morality will be MY morality! To which I say: Fine. My opinion is - if people want to wipe themselves out with drugs, let them - because the safety of the community is not damaged by marginal druggies (unless of course they need to steal to support a habit) - it is damaged by rightist collectivists who want to force THEIR way of life on everyone else, peer into private lives, etc. etc. Your phrase "responsibility to the community" is a euphemism for state control of personal behavior.

As for self-indulgence - I assume you support whole-heartedly the coming war of agression against a sovereign nation, the first in our history. This to me is the supreme act of state self-indulgence. All phases of our government are riddled with self-indulgence of the most destructive kind, and it has nothing to do with drugs in particular.