I think it's interesting that you say Alter State being anti-drug. While I totally see how you can to that conclusion, and think it makes since giving what happens in the story, I actually saw it as the opposite. I think the movie proposing this idea that psychedelics can help us understand and discover our self. I think it was trying to show that there could be actually academic benefits to Drug use. I think the fear is more do we want to know our self, or can we handle the truth.