It's would be weird to drop in figures about drug deaths in this article or something like that. I don't see why that would be relevant.
But it'd be good if there was some more critical reflecting done. Perhaps your drug days would be remembered less fondly if a friend died of an OD? Or maybe you were shielded from the criminal elements of drugs. Perhaps you avoided catching any of the lifechanging STDs that run rampant amongst drug users.
It's the "it can't possibly happen to me" mentality that these nostalgia-fueled articles have that rubs me the wrong way.
With that said, I do think anti-drug messaging needs to confront other positive aspects of drug use, particularly in controlled clinical settings. Many staunch anti-drug people haven't even heard of it because they simply don't encounter it in their usual reading material.