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* ''Series/AbbottElementary'': Deconstructed in the episode "Smoking". District policy requires the teachers to tell students that drugs are bad, using them will ruin your life, just say no, end of. Except the students ask a lot of questions that expose the nuance: What about people who use painkillers from a doctor? What about people who use pot to manage pain or anxiety? Why is alcohol okay for adults to use in moderation but not other drugs? Why do people go to jail for pot when cigarettes are more dangerous? The teachers all know they're right, and are ''extremely'' frustrated that they are literally not allowed to have an honest, realistic concentration about the issue. To make matters worse, the students find out all the teachers use drugs in some form or another (from wine to vaping to edibles), which makes the students rightfully view them as {{hypocrite}}s.
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* ''Series/AbbottElementary'': Deconstructed in the episode "Smoking". District policy requires the teachers to tell students that drugs are bad, using them will ruin your life, just say no, end of. Except the students ask a lot of questions that expose the nuance: What about people who use painkillers from a doctor? What about people who use pot to manage pain or anxiety? Why is alcohol okay for adults to use in moderation but not other drugs? Why do people go to jail for pot when cigarettes are more dangerous? The teachers all know they're right, and are ''extremely'' frustrated that they are literally not allowed to have an honest, realistic concentration conversation about the issue. To make matters worse, the students find out all the teachers use drugs in some form or another (from wine to vaping to edibles), which makes the students rightfully view them as {{hypocrite}}s.
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* ''Series/AbbottElementary'': Deconstructed in the episode "Smoking". District policy requires the teachers to tell students that drugs are bad, using them will ruin your life, just say no, end of. Except the students ask a lot of questions that expose the nuance: What about people who use painkillers from a doctor? What about people who use pot to manage pain or anxiety? Why is alcohol okay for adults to use in moderation but not other drugs? Why do people go to jail for pot when cigarettes are more dangerous? The teachers all know they're right, and are ''extremely'' frustrated that they are literally not allowed to have an honest, realistic concentration about the issue. To make matters worse, the students find out all the teachers use drugs in some form or another (from wine to vaping to edibles), which makes the students rightfully view them as {{hypocrite}}s.
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* ''Series/SeventhHeaven'': This [[{{Narm}} narmtastic]] show went with every drug in the book from marijuana to alcohol to cigarettes to ''glue'' in order to deliver an {{Aesop}} with the [[{{Anvilicious}} subtlety of a sledgehammer to the face]].
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* ''Series/SeventhHeaven'': This [[{{Narm}} narmtastic]] show ''Series/SeventhHeaven'' went with every drug in the book from marijuana to alcohol to cigarettes to ''glue'' in order to deliver an {{Aesop}} AnAesop with the [[{{Anvilicious}} the subtlety of a sledgehammer to the face]].
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* In the Spanish series ''Aida'', the CloudCuckooLander [[TheDitz Ditz]] Luisma is an ex-addict who suffered permanent brain damage.
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* In the Spanish series ''Aida'', ''Series/{{Aida}}'', the CloudCuckooLander {{Cloudcuckoolander}} [[TheDitz Ditz]] Luisma is an ex-addict who suffered permanent brain damage.
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* ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'': The episode "It makes a lovely light" dealt with one of the main characters' newfound drug addiction, with ''heavy'' reliance on flavor-of-the-month PSA language.
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* ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'': The episode "It makes a lovely light" dealt deals with one of the main characters' newfound drug addiction, with ''heavy'' reliance on flavor-of-the-month PSA language.
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* ''Series/{{Spaced}}'': Averted Trope: Recreational drug use is everywhere in the series and is either not a big deal or PlayedForLaughs.
* ''Series/StargateSG1'': Late in this show, a cartel of drug runners called the Lucian Alliance formed in the power vacuum left by the fall of the Goa'uld. The SGC responded by mounting raids on their shipping. They end up as the BigBad of ''Series/StargateUniverse'' for much of its run.
* ''Series/StargateSG1'': Late in this show, a cartel of drug runners called the Lucian Alliance formed in the power vacuum left by the fall of the Goa'uld. The SGC responded by mounting raids on their shipping. They end up as the BigBad of ''Series/StargateUniverse'' for much of its run.
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* {{Averted|Trope}} in ''Series/{{Spaced}}'': Averted Trope: Recreational drug use is everywhere in the series and is either not a big deal or PlayedForLaughs.
*''Series/StargateSG1'': Late in this show, ''Series/StargateSG1'', a cartel of drug runners called the Lucian Alliance formed in the power vacuum left by the fall of the Goa'uld. The SGC responded by mounting raids on their shipping. They end up as the BigBad of ''Series/StargateUniverse'' for much of its run.
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** The episode "Symbiosis" including a why-drugs-are-bad speech by Tasha Yar to Wesley Crusher. She points out that drugs can be an escape from one's crappy life. What makes it even more jarring is that it is entirely irrelevant to the situation. The drug the episode focuses on had been developed to cure a plague, but remained in use long after the plague was cured due to its addictive nature, not dissimilar to opioids.
** The episode "The Neutral Zone" has a musician from the 20th century who died from heavy substance abuse, was frozen, and then revived by the Enterprise crew. He tried to get some prescription drugs off of Dr. Crusher, but she wouldn't let him have any.
** The episode "The Neutral Zone" has a musician from the 20th century who died from heavy substance abuse, was frozen, and then revived by the Enterprise crew. He tried to get some prescription drugs off of Dr. Crusher, but she wouldn't let him have any.
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** The episode "Symbiosis" including "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E21Symbiosis Symbiosis]]" includes a why-drugs-are-bad speech by Tasha Yar to Wesley Crusher. She points out that drugs can be an escape from one's crappy life. What makes it even more jarring is that it is entirely irrelevant to the situation. The drug the episode focuses on had been developed to cure a plague, but remained in use long after the plague was cured due to its addictive nature, not dissimilar to opioids.
** "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E25TheNeutralZone Theepisode "The Neutral Zone" Zone]]" has a musician from the 20th century who died from heavy substance abuse, was frozen, and then revived by the Enterprise ''Enterprise'' crew. He tried tries to get some prescription drugs off of Dr. Crusher, but she wouldn't won't let him have any.
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** Subverted Trope. The main characters smoke pot almost every episode and rarely faced negative consequences as a result. Even after being caught, the characters continue to do it like it never happened.
** Further parodied in the episode "Reefer Madness." Red imagines Eric getting convinced to try marijuana by Hyde in a take-off of the ''Film/ReeferMadness'' movie, in which Hyde shoots Donna, Eric goes incurably insane, Jackie dances to really fast music, and Kelso ends up with random laughing fits.
** Further parodied in the episode "Reefer Madness." Red imagines Eric getting convinced to try marijuana by Hyde in a take-off of the ''Film/ReeferMadness'' movie, in which Hyde shoots Donna, Eric goes incurably insane, Jackie dances to really fast music, and Kelso ends up with random laughing fits.
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** Subverted Trope.{{Subverted|Trope}}. The main characters smoke pot almost every episode and rarely faced negative consequences as a result. Even after being caught, the characters continue to do it like it never happened.
** Further parodied in the episode "ReeferMadness." Madness". Red imagines Eric getting convinced to try marijuana by Hyde in a take-off of the ''Film/ReeferMadness'' movie, in which Hyde shoots Donna, Eric goes incurably insane, Jackie dances to really fast music, and Kelso ends up with random laughing fits.
** Further parodied in the episode "Reefer
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** In first series episode "Day One", Torchwood faces an alien who gets high off of the energy released by vaporizing men while having sex with them. [[AllThereInTheManual The Torchwood website shows Captain Jack's report on the alien]], in which he notes that its behavior was comparable to a human drug addict.
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** In first series episode "Day One", "[[Recap/TorchwoodS1E2DayOne Day One]]", Torchwood faces an alien who gets high off of the energy released by vaporizing men while having sex with them. [[AllThereInTheManual The Torchwood website shows Captain Jack's report on the alien]], in which he notes that its behavior was comparable to a human drug addict.
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* ''Series/{{Traffic}}'': The British miniseries, and the American film adaptation, have the message "Drugs are bad, but there aren't any easy answers (possible solutions, but not easy ones)."
* ''Series/{{V 1983}}'': Subverted Trope. In ''V: The Final Battle'', the street-smart member of the resistance is selling drugs to Visitors and their collaborators. When his father confronts him on this, the character justifies it as a means to help undermine their enemy in some small way, and his father admits he has a point.
* ''Series/WelcomeBackKotter'': Had a VerySpecialEpisode dedicated to Washington getting involved with drugs.
* ''Series/TheWire'': [[URExample Through the character Bubbles]], [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome gives a pretty grim representation]] of the life of a Baltimore heroin addict. It's not pretty. He finally goes into rehab in the fifth season.
* ''Series/{{V 1983}}'': Subverted Trope. In ''V: The Final Battle'', the street-smart member of the resistance is selling drugs to Visitors and their collaborators. When his father confronts him on this, the character justifies it as a means to help undermine their enemy in some small way, and his father admits he has a point.
* ''Series/WelcomeBackKotter'': Had a VerySpecialEpisode dedicated to Washington getting involved with drugs.
* ''Series/TheWire'': [[URExample Through the character Bubbles]], [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome gives a pretty grim representation]] of the life of a Baltimore heroin addict. It's not pretty. He finally goes into rehab in the fifth season.
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* ''Series/{{Traffic}}'': The British miniseries, miniseries ''Series/{{Traffic}}'' and the American film adaptation, adaptation have the message "Drugs are bad, but there aren't any easy answers (possible solutions, but not easy ones)."
* ''Series/{{V 1983}}'':Subverted Trope.{{Subverted|Trope}}. In ''V: The Final Battle'', the street-smart member of the resistance is selling drugs to Visitors and their collaborators. When his father confronts him on this, the character justifies it as a means to help undermine their enemy in some small way, and his father admits he has a point.
*''Series/WelcomeBackKotter'': Had ''Series/WelcomeBackKotter'' has a VerySpecialEpisode dedicated to Washington getting involved with drugs.
*''Series/TheWire'': ''Series/TheWire'', [[URExample Through through the character Bubbles]], [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome gives a pretty grim representation]] of the life of a Baltimore heroin addict. It's not pretty. He finally goes into rehab in the fifth season.
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* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': Parodied in a sketch in the Creator/AyoEdibiri episode. A college student named Zachary mentions he took a small dose of shrooms and it helped him feel a bit calmer at school. This prompts two of his friends to freak out that Zachary is now on the path to addiction, treating the very small dosage with the severity seen in the drug [=PSAs=] of TheNineties. Ironically, their friends point out [[HypocriticalHumor they drink every night without any issue]].
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* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': Parodied in a sketch in the Creator/AyoEdibiri Creator/AyoEdebiri episode. A college student named Zachary mentions he took a small dose of shrooms and it helped him feel a bit calmer at school. This prompts two of his friends to freak out that Zachary is now on the path to addiction, treating the very small dosage with the severity seen in the drug [=PSAs=] of TheNineties. Ironically, their friends point out [[HypocriticalHumor they drink every night without any issue]].
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* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': Parodied in a sketch in the Creator/AyoEdibiri episode. A college student named Zachary mentions he took a small dose of shrooms and it helped him feel a bit calmer at school. This prompts two of his friends to freak out that Zachary is now on the path to addiction, treating the very small dosage with the severity seen in the drug [=PSAs=] of TheNineties. Ironically, their friends point out [[HypocriticalHumor they drink every night without any issue]].
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* ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'':
** One very special episode had him and his friends accidentally acquire a pile of marijuana - these career criminals who spend most of their time drunk react with horror to the stuff, and the folks using the stuff act unlike anyone stoned, ever. It had to be a parody - [[PoesLaw it HAD to be...]]
** Perhaps I'm not remembering it entirely accurately, but as I recall they were simply worried about the consequences of getting caught with so much marijuana, and weren't particularly concerned with any moral implication.
*** It wasn't even to do with the consequences, it was because of Joy's logic that went along the lines of 'If you get drunk, you throw up and get thin. If you smoke pot, you get the munchies and get fat.'
** Of course it was a parody. They even Lampshade the alcohol thing when Earl's mother discovers the marijuana and says [[HypocriticalHumor "Weed is addictive and fosters anti-social behavior!"]]. After grabbing a bottle of booze, she says "If you need me, I'll be upstairs!"
** One very special episode had him and his friends accidentally acquire a pile of marijuana - these career criminals who spend most of their time drunk react with horror to the stuff, and the folks using the stuff act unlike anyone stoned, ever. It had to be a parody - [[PoesLaw it HAD to be...]]
** Perhaps I'm not remembering it entirely accurately, but as I recall they were simply worried about the consequences of getting caught with so much marijuana, and weren't particularly concerned with any moral implication.
*** It wasn't even to do with the consequences, it was because of Joy's logic that went along the lines of 'If you get drunk, you throw up and get thin. If you smoke pot, you get the munchies and get fat.'
** Of course it was a parody. They even Lampshade the alcohol thing when Earl's mother discovers the marijuana and says [[HypocriticalHumor "Weed is addictive and fosters anti-social behavior!"]]. After grabbing a bottle of booze, she says "If you need me, I'll be upstairs!"
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* ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'':
**''Series/MyNameIsEarl'': One very special episode had him and his friends accidentally acquire a pile of marijuana - these career criminals who spend most of their time drunk react with horror to the stuff, and the folks using the stuff act unlike anyone stoned, ever. It had to be a parody - [[PoesLaw it HAD to be...]]
** Perhaps I'm not remembering it entirely accurately, but as I recall they were simply worried about the consequences of getting caught with so much marijuana, and weren't particularly concerned with any moral implication.
*** It wasn't even to do with the consequences, it was because of Joy's logic that went along the lines of 'If you get drunk, you throw up and get thin. If you smoke pot, you get the munchies and get fat.'
**Of course course, [[ParodiedTrope it was a parody. parody.]] They even Lampshade the alcohol thing when Earl's mother discovers the marijuana and says [[HypocriticalHumor "Weed is addictive and fosters anti-social behavior!"]]. After grabbing a bottle of booze, she says "If you need me, I'll be upstairs!"
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** Perhaps I'm not remembering it entirely accurately, but as I recall they were simply worried about the consequences of getting caught with so much marijuana, and weren't particularly concerned with any moral implication.
*** It wasn't even to do with the consequences, it was because of Joy's logic that went along the lines of 'If you get drunk, you throw up and get thin. If you smoke pot, you get the munchies and get fat.'
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* ''Series/QueenSugar'': Darla's drug addiction is a major obstacle that she has to overcame. While she was an addict, she turned to sex work for money and neglected her son. Darla's mother details how difficult and terrifying it was to try to help her while she was addicted.
-->'''Darlene''': Do you know how it felt for us? Our daughter calling us, high, asking for money? Or high, screaming in pain? Or high, threatening to harm herself? And we are all the way across the country scared out of our minds?
-->'''Darlene''': Do you know how it felt for us? Our daughter calling us, high, asking for money? Or high, screaming in pain? Or high, threatening to harm herself? And we are all the way across the country scared out of our minds?
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* ''Series/SavedByTheBell'': Most famous TV example: This show + Jessie + prescription caffeine-like pills = [[{{Narm}} The greatest moment in unintentional comedy history]].
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* ''Series/SavedByTheBell'': ''Series/SavedByTheBell'':
** Most famous TV example: This show + Jessie + prescription caffeine-like pills = [[{{Narm}} The greatest moment in unintentional comedyhistory]].history]].
** The episode "No Hope with Dope" also touches upon this issue.
** Most famous TV example: This show + Jessie + prescription caffeine-like pills = [[{{Narm}} The greatest moment in unintentional comedy
** The episode "No Hope with Dope" also touches upon this issue.
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** Played with in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E6TheCavesOfAndrozani "The Caves of Androzani"]], which is about the Doctor getting caught in the crossfire of a drug war and [[KillEmAll virtually everyone in the story dying in the resulting mess, including the Doctor]] — yet the drugs themselves are value-neutral, the "badness" associated with the unscrupulous, highly intelligent and murderous gangsters who end up dealing them.
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** Played with in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E6TheCavesOfAndrozani "The Caves of Androzani"]], which is about the Doctor getting caught in the crossfire of a drug war and [[KillEmAll virtually everyone in the story dying in the resulting mess, including the Doctor]] Doctor — yet the drugs themselves are value-neutral, the "badness" associated with the unscrupulous, highly intelligent and murderous gangsters who end up dealing them.
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*** Something of a BrokenAesop in this case since the bad effects ''weren't'' caused by the beer; they were caused by a magic potion that happened to be administered via the beer. Possibly this sequence is why the Wiki/TVTropes anon-edit password used to be "foamy".
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*** Something of a BrokenAesop in this case since the bad effects ''weren't'' caused by the beer; they were caused by a magic potion that happened to be administered via the beer. Possibly this sequence is why the Wiki/TVTropes Website/TVTropes anon-edit password used to be "foamy".
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* ''Series/TheWire'': [[URExample Through the character Bubbles]], [[RealityEnsues gives a pretty grim representation]] of the life of a Baltimore heroin addict. It's not pretty. He finally goes into rehab in the fifth season.
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* ''Series/TheWire'': [[URExample Through the character Bubbles]], [[RealityEnsues [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome gives a pretty grim representation]] of the life of a Baltimore heroin addict. It's not pretty. He finally goes into rehab in the fifth season.
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* The ''{{Series/Smallville}}'' episode "Void" has Lana take a drug allowing a person to communicate with the afterlife. Not an episode you want to watch before sleep.
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* The ''{{Series/Smallville}}'' episode "Void" has Lana take a drug allowing a person to communicate with the afterlife. [[NightmareFuel Not an episode you want to watch before sleep.sleep]].
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* ''Series/{{V 1983}}'': Subverted Trope. In ''V: The Final Battle'', the street smart member of the resistance is selling drugs to Visitors and their collaborators. When his father confronts him on this, the character justifies it as a means to help undermine their enemy in some small way and his father admits he has a point.
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* ''Series/{{V 1983}}'': Subverted Trope. In ''V: The Final Battle'', the street smart street-smart member of the resistance is selling drugs to Visitors and their collaborators. When his father confronts him on this, the character justifies it as a means to help undermine their enemy in some small way way, and his father admits he has a point.
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* ''Series/TheWire'': Through the character Bubbles, gives a pretty grim representation of the life of a Baltimore heroin addict. It's not pretty. He finally goes into rehab in the fifth season.
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* ''Series/TheWire'': [[URExample Through the character Bubbles, Bubbles]], [[RealityEnsues gives a pretty grim representation representation]] of the life of a Baltimore heroin addict. It's not pretty. He finally goes into rehab in the fifth season.
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** One episode has a highway patrolman giving the [=DJs=] alcohol and then testing their reaction times on-air as a sort of live PSA. Venus is clearly impaired by the booze, at one point stumbling into Arthur Carlson's office and demanding a hat ("Cop's got a hat, I want a hat"), and his reaction times reflect this. However, there's also a BrokenAesop involved because Johnny's reaction time steadily ''improves'' as he gets drunker, which frustrates the policeman so much ''he'' starts drinking.
** In "Johnny Comes Back", Johnny's replacement Doug Winner takes "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola payola]]" (accepting bribes to play certain songs) but instead of money, he's paid in cocaine. Some of the characters ... Johnny in particular ... find the payola more contemptible than the drugs. Doug stupidly keeps his stash ''in the air studio''. When Carlson discovers it, Johnny covers for Doug by saying it's foot powder, and Carlson promptly takes it hoping it'll work better than his current brand.
** In "Johnny Comes Back", Johnny's replacement Doug Winner takes "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola payola]]" (accepting bribes to play certain songs) but instead of money, he's paid in cocaine. Some of the characters ... Johnny in particular ... find the payola more contemptible than the drugs. Doug stupidly keeps his stash ''in the air studio''. When Carlson discovers it, Johnny covers for Doug by saying it's foot powder, and Carlson promptly takes it hoping it'll work better than his current brand.
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** One episode has a highway patrolman giving the [=DJs=] alcohol and then testing their reaction times on-air as a sort of live PSA. Venus is clearly impaired by the booze, at one point stumbling into Arthur Carlson's office and demanding a hat ("Cop's got a hat, I want a hat"), and his reaction times reflect this. However, there's also a BrokenAesop involved because Johnny's reaction time steadily ''improves'' as he gets drunker, which frustrates the policeman so much ''he'' [[GotMeDoingIt starts drinking.
drinking]].
** In "Johnny Comes Back", Johnny's replacement Doug Winner takes "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola payola]]" (accepting bribes to play certainsongs) songs), but instead of money, he's paid in cocaine. Some of the characters ... Johnny in particular ... find the payola [[ThisIsUnforgivable more contemptible than the drugs.drugs]]. Doug stupidly keeps his stash ''in the air studio''. When Carlson discovers it, Johnny covers for Doug by saying it's foot powder, and Carlson promptly takes it hoping it'll work better than his current brand.
** In "Johnny Comes Back", Johnny's replacement Doug Winner takes "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola payola]]" (accepting bribes to play certain
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* ''Series/{{Hightown}}'': They are the root of all evil in season 1. People get killed by overdoses, murdered for knowledge of drug deals, messup up due to addiction or murder others in pursuing profits from selling them.
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* ''Series/{{Hightown}}'': They are the root of all evil in season 1. People get killed by overdoses, murdered for knowledge of drug deals, messup mess up due to addiction or murder others in pursuing profits from selling them.
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** In another episode, a man is robbing a store and shoots at Jonathan. Jonathan catches the bullet with his fingers and says, "That's a no-no." As the man is arrested and hauled off, he recounts what had happened, apparently believing that Jonathan's catching the bullet was a drug-induced hallucination: "I am never doing drugs again!"
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* ''Series/{{House}}'': The title character is addicted to Vicodin and isn't above criminal means to ensure a steady supply. This is partly a reflection of the fact that he's a SherlockHolmes Expy (though Holmes' drug taking would have been legal at the time).
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* ''Series/{{House}}'': The title character is addicted to Vicodin and isn't above criminal means to ensure a steady supply. This is partly a reflection of the fact that he's a SherlockHolmes Literature/SherlockHolmes Expy (though Holmes' drug taking would have been legal at the time).
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** Both played straight and played with in this early 90s live-action/rubber suit sitcom. They do a very straightforward DrugsAreBad episode about the characters finding and abusing a plant implied to be marijuana until one of them just accidentally burns the whole thing while high. At the end, they avert the usual PSA segment about how bad drugs are, when the adolescent son begs the audience to not do drugs so sitcoms can stop getting pushed to ''make'' {{Very Special Episode}}s.
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** Both played straight and played with in this early 90s live-action/rubber suit sitcom. They do a very straightforward DrugsAreBad episode about the characters Earl, Robbie and Charlene finding and abusing a plant implied to be marijuana until one (or some other psychoactive plant). Their constant usage of them just accidentally burns it results in Earl getting fired, Robbie and Charlene skipping school, all of the whole thing while high. food in the house being eaten (with Baby not being fed) and Fran leaving the house in disgust. At the end, they avert the usual PSA segment about how bad drugs are, when Robbie [[BreakingtheFourthWall breaks the adolescent son fourth wall]] and begs the audience to not do drugs so sitcoms can stop getting pushed to ''make'' make preachy and heavy-handed {{Very Special Episode}}s.
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* The ''Series/AdventuresInWonderland'' episode "All That Glitters" does this with refreshing subtlety for an early '90s kids' show. Tweedledum learns that a certain fruit will give him temporary SuperStrength if he eats it, but might make him sick too, and sure enough, after he gives in to temptation, he gets a horrible stomach ache. To adult viewers, the allegory for drugs or steroids is clear, especially when the Queen says to "just say no" to the fruit. But drugs are never actually mentioned and the message that's emphasized is "Don't ignore warnings."
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* ''Series/TheAndromedaStrain'': IntrepidReporter Nash is a cocaine addict who got his life and career ruined by it. He's introduced coming out of rehab, but soon [[DescentIntoAddiction finds himself falling back into old habits under the pressure]].
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* ''Series/PunkyBrewster'' wants to join a clique who call themselves the Chiclets. But in order to join, she has to try drugs. Punky is faced with a quandary until she follows a "Just Say No" campaign. The episode ends with Creator/SoleilMoonFrye doing a Just Say No rally in Atlanta and Cherie Johnson doing a campaign in St. Louis.
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* ''Series/PunkyBrewster'' wants to join a clique who call themselves the Chiclets. But in order to join, she has to try drugs. Punky is faced with a quandary until she follows a "Just Say No" campaign. The episode ends with Creator/SoleilMoonFrye doing a Just Say No rally in Atlanta and Cherie Johnson Creator/CherieJohnson doing a campaign in St. Louis.
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* ''Series/PunkyBrewster'' wants to join a clique who call themselves the Chiclets. But in order to join, she has to try drugs. Punky is faced with a quandary until she follows a "Just Say No" campaign. The episode ends with Soleil Moon Frye Creator/SoleilMoonFrye doing a Just Say No rally in Atlanta and Cherie Johnson doing a campaign in St. Louis.
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* ''Series/{{Hightown}}'': They are the root of all evil in season 1. People get killed by overdoses, murdered for knowledge of drug deals, messup up due to addiction or murder others in pursuing profits from selling them.
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* Even though it surely wasn't the creators' intent, ''Series/BehindTheMusic'' could scarcely help winding up with a strong DrugsAreBad vibe, considering how many musicians it profiled who absolutely ''destroyed'' their lives with drugs.
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* Even though it surely wasn't may not have been the creators' intent, ''Series/BehindTheMusic'' could scarcely help winding up with a strong DrugsAreBad vibe, considering how many musicians it profiled who absolutely ''destroyed'' their lives with drugs.
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* Even though it surely wasn't the creators' intent, ''Series/BehindTheMusic'' could scarcely help winding up with a strong DrugsAreBad vibe, considering how many musicians it profiled who absolutely ''destroyed'' their lives with drugs.
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* ''{{Series/Dinosaurs}}'': Both played straight and played with in this early 90s live-action/rubber suit sitcom. They do a very straightforward DrugsAreBad episode about the characters finding and abusing a plant implied to be marijuana until one of them just accidentally burns the whole thing while high. At the end, they avert the usual PSA segment about how bad drugs are, when the adolescent son begs the audience to not do drugs so sitcoms can stop getting pushed to ''make'' {{Very Special Episode}}s.
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* ''{{Series/Dinosaurs}}'': ''{{Series/Dinosaurs}}'':
** Both played straight and played with in this early 90s live-action/rubber suit sitcom. They do a very straightforward DrugsAreBad episode about the characters finding and abusing a plant implied to be marijuana until one of them just accidentally burns the whole thing while high. At the end, they avert the usual PSA segment about how bad drugs are, when the adolescent son begs the audience to not do drugs so sitcoms can stop getting pushed to ''make'' {{Very Special Episode}}s.
** Both played straight and played with in this early 90s live-action/rubber suit sitcom. They do a very straightforward DrugsAreBad episode about the characters finding and abusing a plant implied to be marijuana until one of them just accidentally burns the whole thing while high. At the end, they avert the usual PSA segment about how bad drugs are, when the adolescent son begs the audience to not do drugs so sitcoms can stop getting pushed to ''make'' {{Very Special Episode}}s.
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** On that note, [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8616413.stm Unearthed]] WordOfGod from TheSixties describes [[TheNthDoctor regenerations]] "as if [the Doctor] has had the LSD drug and instead of experiencing the kicks, he has the hell and dank horror which can be its effect". No wonder why he might suffer from regenerative trauma after the process.
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** On that note, [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8616413.stm Unearthed]] WordOfGod from TheSixties describes [[TheNthDoctor regenerations]] "as if [the Doctor] has had the LSD drug and instead of experiencing the kicks, he has the hell and dank horror which can be its effect". No wonder why he might suffer from regenerative trauma after the process.