When it's tech execs, they are "stressed out". If this about regular people the title would say they are alcoholics and drug addicts.

And that wouldn't even be inaccurate. You don't take pain killers for stress. If they wanted to manage stress, they would be taking benzos. They are just drug addicts.

TIL I'm qualified to be a tech exec

What makes this extra fun is the corps and media saying there's going to be a recession "any day now" for 11 goddamned months straight. My job is OK but my company is stable and I'm not going to leave just to get laid off the day after "any day now"

I bet that the stats are higher for the folks in the trenches below them

Oh no! Not the execs that copy the decisions of other execs without any regard for their employees! I for one am happy about this

Yeah honestly I'm not surprised, they can probably use their piles of cash to wipe away their tears. I work for a very large company as an SDE and when asked about how I feel about the manager track, I am met with awkward silence when I say I absolutely do not want that path. My manager probably doesn't make a ton more than me, but they work at least 2x the hours with way more stress. Not worth it. These people chose these lives.

Boo hoo, I am so stressed! I can only fly in a gold plated private jet instead of a rhodium plated one. The west has fallen, trillions must fly

If job insecurity is causing stress to highly paid tech executives, they're living beyond their means/have succumbed to lifestyle creep. They should spend less and save more so that when they're fired or laid off they won't have to struggle between jobs.

pfff, exec's have always had substance abuse problems. it's so common that it even shows up in films (Harry Ellis, Die Hard)

This is why I decided to go into analysis rather than management. Coffee, weed and cigarettes are a considerably more pleasant combination of addiction, and instead of drunkenly raging at my subordinates, I just giggle when things get stressful. That or take a nap.

Won’t somebody please think of the tech execs?

Those numbers seem pretty high, but without comparison to workers in the tech sector as a whole and workers in the US as a whole, it's pretty useless data. This study does seem to show that these execs are using drugs at a much higher rate (if you trust the OP article methodology) than other information workers, but I don't think that should suprise anyone, since workplace stress is usual higher for execs. The other difference is that they have a lot more disposable income than most workers to spend on drugs and other coping mechanisms.