My 2c:
I'm wondering whatever happened to the zero BAC rule, rather than the 12 hour bottle-to-throttle rule for these people.
It has been reported that the flights involved were a Soyuz flight (as pax) and a T-38 flight (as pax). Not acceptable, IMO, but the media (Aviation leak) might be jazzing things up things a little. Still bad, 'cause you shouldn't be anywhere near those systems if affected by alc-a-ma-hol, but we need to find out how they got there. Did a flight surgeon withhold data? Was it reported to ops, and ops failed to act? We need to know more about what happened...
Lastly, the comments about "... you die..." are grossly overstated. There are various abort modes, each with pretty damn good chances of survival. Granted, you don't have a launch escape system but unless you get a Crit 1 failure, the abort modes will most likely get you back safe.