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An educated, creative, upper middle class family with inner demons and addictions. Autobiographical, based on O'Neill's family in the '30's or '40's. Point being, as the article talks about, drugs have been woven into the fabric of life in America for a long time. The title is also apropos of the long slide to where we are now. It was never a time of innocence but a long slow decline looking into the abyss.
On edit: the play is set in the family's summer home in 1912. Same scenario as mentioned in the article: access to narcotics via prescription for the upper and middle classes.
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