Quite possibly, I know what the comics artist is using, I dunno what the writer or director are doing but the use of controlled substances by the previous generation of animators we trained under was an open "secret", including horror stories about the shit their mentor did when he was running a show with the help of fistfuls of cocaine.
What about conscientious people from the past, like 90% of historical figures we've heard of? Was Benjamin Franklin on stimulants?
I hear religion is one hell of a drug, although that doesn't really explain all the atheist historical figures.