History Main / AddledAddict

-->--'''Catherina''', ''{{VidoGame/Pathologic}}''

* Rodrigo Borgia takes vitriola (diethyl ether) for a good part series two ''Series/Borgia'' and suffers hallucinations and erratic behaviour, not a good state to be in whilst being pope.

* Rodrigo Borgia on vitriola (diethyl ether) for a good part series two ''Series/Borgia''

When a drug addict is left a physical and mental wreck from his/her addiction to drugs or alcohol. The decline is often documented as a way of showing DrugsAreBad. This is distinct from the FunctionalAddict (who is still capable of accomplishing the tasks of every day life), but the FunctionalAddict may become this.

* In ''Film/LittleLauraAndBigJohn'', very near the end of the film we see that the title Laura has drunk herself stupid after [[spoiler: John's death]].

* In ''Film/{{Traffic}}'' Caroline goes from straight-A student to crack whore after she is introduced to freebasing cocaine.

* Kyle and Dusty in ''Film/MethHead''. They struggled to find money and suffered some bad side effects from all the meth they snorted.

The LogicalExtreme is someone being killed by their addiction.

Also distinct from TheAlcoholic (where the character trait is simply that they are usually drunk), but there definately can be overlap.

* Pink's drug use is implied to be one of the reasons why his wife cheated on him in ''TheWall''. At one point, after he's engaged in a little ArtisticStimulation, she tries to speak to him, but he just looks at her like "daaahhhh..."

* In VideoGames/TheSims3, you can make a Sim this by assigning them the Absent-Minded, Inappropriate, Insane, or Unstable traits (or all of the above) along with the PartyAnimal trait, and/or assigning them those traits and having them do nothing but drink, eat, eat/burn herbs, consume potions with negative effects, WooHoo with anyone and everyone, play video games nonstop, or otherwise engage in an addictive behavior.

* Music/TaijiSawada was a virtuoso bassist and guitarist, one of the first Japanese rockers to fuse metal and country-western music, and unfortunately a raging alcoholic and user of stimulant drugs as well. He moved from FunctionalAddict to AddledAddict territory around the early 1990s, in part leading to his being kicked from both Music/XJapan and Music/{{Loudness}}, becoming entirely broke and homeless and his mental illnesses getting out of control, being almost killed in a fight with another homeless man, and only slowly putting his life back together - only to fall OffTheWagon again, one last time, in 2011, which led to his arrest and to his [[PoliceAreUseless suspicious]] [[PoliceBrutality death]].

* In LittleLauraAndBigJohn , very near the end of the film we see that the title Laura has drunk herself stupid after [[spoiler: John's death]].

* King Wargun and Krager in ''TheTamuli''. Wargun (who is still sane in ''TheElenium'') is said to be insane from drink and locked in one wing of the palace at the beginning, and Krager has lost his mind and is dying at the end. It's mentioned that, by the end of ''TheTamuli'', Wargun is dead as well.

* In the ''{{Flashman}}'' series, Flashman's father, Buckley, ends up in this state, helped along by experiencing a financial collapse from bad investments. In the first novel of the series, he's a bad-tempered old rake with a drinking problem, and shortly after that, he's put in an asylum to be treated for the DT's. He appears as a POV character in the spin-off novel ''Black Ajax'' but doesn't really show up after that (except for mentions of his bad physical and mental health), and it is implied that his son basically left him there to rot.

* In ''Film/{{Traffic}}'' Caroline goes from straight-A student to crack whore after she is introduced to freebasing cocaine.

* In Webcomic/ClockworkGame, Johann Maelzel becomes an alcoholic [[http://www.clockwork-comics.com/2013/06/13/im-well-sir/ and is shown clearly suffering from it.]]

Also distinct from TheAlcoholic, where the character trait is simply that they are usually drunk) but there definately can be overlap.

Also distint from TheAlcoholic, where the character trait is simply that they are usually drunk) but there definately can be overlap.