A nice headline grabbing statement again by you.
As has been pointed out, it was a PPL operation.
Also the drugs involved were anti-Parkinson drugs (I do not off hand know whether these are allowed by an AME or not) and the alcohol was:
The deceased was probably under the slight influence of alcohol; the alcohol con- centration in the blood was 0.250/00, the concentration in the urine was 0.020/00.
So not ideal conditions for flight, but not quite the "drugs and booze" fuelled flight you are trying to make it out to be.