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* Sunny's brother Dale in the ''ComicBook/SunnySeries'' is addicted to pot and a drinker, causing him to [[ToxicFriendInfluence hang with a bad group of two other boys]] and fight with his parents. After his outburst on the Fourth of July [[spoiler:where he hits Sunny in a drunken accident when she tries to stand between him and their dad]], he gets shipped off to MilitarySchool to clean up his act. He's resentful and bitter at first and even returns to spending time with his old friends, but starts to come around and by the start of the third book in the series has cleaned up enough he's enrolled in the Navy.
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* Jake of ''Film/FourClosed'' is a former alcoholic.
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* Creator/EwanMcGregor's character, Mark Renton in ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'', at least until his friends forced him to go back to heroin.
** in Film/T2Trainspotting, Renton and Spud both have quit heroin, while Sick Boy is still a heavy cocaine user. Spud's AddictionDisplacement hobby of writing down stories from his life turns into [[ATrueStoryInMyUniverse a script for Trainspotting]]
* Played with in the relatively little known and not especially well received Creator/AlPacino film ''Film/TwoForTheMoney'', where Pacino's character is a former [[TheGamblingAddict Gambling Addict]] who kicked the habit after coming down with a heart condition, and appears to stay away from personally gambling even though he owns a business that advises people on how to bet on sports. Throughout the film it's shown, however, that he has done a form of AddictionDisplacement: rather than wagering money on sports teams or dice or cards, he now gambles with his business and his personal relationships instead. This is shown during the film by him doing things like recruiting little known [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handicapping sports handicappers]], bringing them to the [[BigApplesauce New York]] where potentially millions of dollars are riding on their picks and seeing if they crack under the pressure, (with potentially catastrophic effects on his business) or if his attractive younger wife cheats with his latest, very handsome recruit...
** in Film/T2Trainspotting, Renton and Spud both have quit heroin, while Sick Boy is still a heavy cocaine user. Spud's AddictionDisplacement hobby of writing down stories from his life turns into [[ATrueStoryInMyUniverse a script for Trainspotting]]
* Played with in the relatively little known and not especially well received Creator/AlPacino film ''Film/TwoForTheMoney'', where Pacino's character is a former [[TheGamblingAddict Gambling Addict]] who kicked the habit after coming down with a heart condition, and appears to stay away from personally gambling even though he owns a business that advises people on how to bet on sports. Throughout the film it's shown, however, that he has done a form of AddictionDisplacement: rather than wagering money on sports teams or dice or cards, he now gambles with his business and his personal relationships instead. This is shown during the film by him doing things like recruiting little known [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handicapping sports handicappers]], bringing them to the [[BigApplesauce New York]] where potentially millions of dollars are riding on their picks and seeing if they crack under the pressure, (with potentially catastrophic effects on his business) or if his attractive younger wife cheats with his latest, very handsome recruit...
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* Creator/EwanMcGregor's character, Mark Renton in ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'', at least until his friends forced him to go back to heroin.
** in Film/T2Trainspotting, Renton and Spud both have quit heroin, while Sick Boy is still a heavy cocaine user. Spud's AddictionDisplacement hobby of writing down stories from his life turns into [[ATrueStoryInMyUniverse a script for Trainspotting]]
* Played with in the relatively little known and not especially well received Creator/AlPacino film ''Film/TwoForTheMoney'', where Pacino's character''Film/FastColor'': Ruth is a former [[TheGamblingAddict Gambling Addict]] who kicked the habit after coming down with a heart condition, and appears to stay away from personally gambling even though he owns a business that advises people on how to bet on sports. Throughout drug addict who's gotten sober when the film starts, saying it's shown, however, been eleven months since she used. She once recites the Serenity Prayer as well.
* ''Film/FeastOfLove'': Oscar relates to Chloe thathe has done he's a form of AddictionDisplacement: rather than wagering money on sports teams or dice or cards, he now gambles with his business and his personal relationships instead. This is shown during the film by him doing things like recruiting little known [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handicapping sports handicappers]], bringing them to the [[BigApplesauce New York]] where potentially millions of dollars are riding on their picks and seeing if former drug user in recovery after they crack under the pressure, (with potentially catastrophic effects on his business) or if his attractive younger wife cheats with his latest, very handsome recruit...meet.
** in Film/T2Trainspotting, Renton and Spud both have quit heroin, while Sick Boy is still a heavy cocaine user. Spud's AddictionDisplacement hobby of writing down stories from his life turns into [[ATrueStoryInMyUniverse a script for Trainspotting]]
* Played with in the relatively little known and not especially well received Creator/AlPacino film ''Film/TwoForTheMoney'', where Pacino's character
* ''Film/FeastOfLove'': Oscar relates to Chloe that
* Tim from ''Film/FragmentOfFear'' is a former AddledAddict who sobered up about a year ago and is now the author of a successful memoir called ''Addict''. His past is used against him - when he tells the police he's being stalked, they assume he's started taking hallucinogens again, and at one point some goons beat him up and then place a syringe in his hand, which he drops down a sewer grate.
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* Tim from ''Film/FragmentOfFear'' is a former AddledAddict who sobered up about a year ago and is now the author of a successful memoir called ''Addict''. His past is used against him - when he tells the police he's being stalked, they assume he's started taking hallucinogens again, and at one point some goons beat him up and then place a syringe in his hand, which he drops down a sewer grate.
* ''Film/FeastOfLove'': Oscar relates to Chloe that he's a former drug user in recovery after they meet.
* ''Film/FastColor'': Ruth is a drug addict who's gotten sober when the film starts, saying it's been eleven months since she used. She once recites the Serenity Prayer as well.
* ''Film/FeastOfLove'': Oscar relates to Chloe that he's a former drug user in recovery after they meet.
* ''Film/FastColor'': Ruth is a drug addict who's gotten sober when the film starts, saying it's been eleven months since she used. She once recites the Serenity Prayer as well.
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* Tim Creator/EwanMcGregor's character, Mark Renton in ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'', at least until his friends forced him to go back to heroin.
** in Film/T2Trainspotting, Renton and Spud both have quit heroin, while Sick Boy is still a heavy cocaine user. Spud's AddictionDisplacement hobby of writing down stories from''Film/FragmentOfFear'' his life turns into [[ATrueStoryInMyUniverse a script for Trainspotting]]
* Played with in the relatively little known and not especially well received Creator/AlPacino film ''Film/TwoForTheMoney'', where Pacino's character is a formerAddledAddict [[TheGamblingAddict Gambling Addict]] who sobered up about a year ago and is now kicked the author of a successful memoir called ''Addict''. His past is used against him - when he tells the police he's being stalked, they assume he's started taking hallucinogens again, and at one point some goons beat him up and then place a syringe in his hand, which he drops down a sewer grate.
* ''Film/FeastOfLove'': Oscar relates to Chloe that he's a former drug user in recoveryhabit after they meet.
* ''Film/FastColor'': Ruth iscoming down with a drug addict who's gotten sober when heart condition, and appears to stay away from personally gambling even though he owns a business that advises people on how to bet on sports. Throughout the film starts, saying it's been eleven months since she used. She once recites shown, however, that he has done a form of AddictionDisplacement: rather than wagering money on sports teams or dice or cards, he now gambles with his business and his personal relationships instead. This is shown during the Serenity Prayer as well.film by him doing things like recruiting little known [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handicapping sports handicappers]], bringing them to the [[BigApplesauce New York]] where potentially millions of dollars are riding on their picks and seeing if they crack under the pressure, (with potentially catastrophic effects on his business) or if his attractive younger wife cheats with his latest, very handsome recruit...
** in Film/T2Trainspotting, Renton and Spud both have quit heroin, while Sick Boy is still a heavy cocaine user. Spud's AddictionDisplacement hobby of writing down stories from
* Played with in the relatively little known and not especially well received Creator/AlPacino film ''Film/TwoForTheMoney'', where Pacino's character is a former
* ''Film/FeastOfLove'': Oscar relates to Chloe that he's a former drug user in recovery
* ''Film/FastColor'': Ruth is
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* Will Graham, of "Film/IllSleepWhenImDead", with both alcohol and violence. Following a HeroicBSoD, he falls off the wagon for both.
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* ''Literature/{{Rummies}}'' (by Creator/PeterBenchley): Scott Preston, by the end of the book. He's truly learned from his four weeks in rehab, proving he's kicked the habit when he refuses to join a fellow patient in going to a bar after leaving and later passes up a chance at another bar on his way to the airplane that will take him home.
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* By the time ''VideoGame/MidnightSuns'' begins, [[Comicbook/IronMan Tony Stark]] has kicked his drinking habit. He is shown to have modified a Stark family recipe for linguine by removing vodka from it to stay on the wagon, as well as replacing the liquors in the Abbey's bar with soft drinks.
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* Manny from ''Literature/TheStrangerTimes'' used to be addicted to heroin before merging with the guardian of the Church of Old Souls. He's still a serious [[TheStoner pothead]], but he's become far healthier and happier than he used to be.
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* In ''ComicBook/TheOrder2007'', Henry Hellrung used to be a nasty drunk, the result of his playing [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] on a TV show and becoming the real Tony's wingman. After his career went down the toilet, he got heavily into AA, and became Stark's sponsor when ''he'' got sober. Incidentally, upon becoming the leader of the Order, California's post-''ComicBook/CivilWar'' official team, he instituted a strict no-alcohol policy.
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* In ''ComicBook/TheOrder2007'', ''ComicBook/{{The Order|2007}}'', Henry Hellrung used to be a nasty drunk, the result of his playing [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] on a TV show and becoming the real Tony's wingman. After his career went down the toilet, he got heavily into AA, and became Stark's sponsor when ''he'' got sober. Incidentally, upon becoming the leader of the Order, California's post-''ComicBook/CivilWar'' post-''ComicBook/{{Civil War|2006}}'' official team, he instituted a strict no-alcohol policy.
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* ''Series/FeelGood'': Mae is a cocaine addict and has been clean for years. However, she's very reluctant to attend Narcotics Anonymous meetings and otherwise go through formal 12-step recovery, but eventually does so. She later falls off the wagon with oxycodone at the end of Season 1. In Season 2 she goes into treatment for drug addiction once more.
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** Mae is a cocaine addict and has been clean for years. However, she's very reluctant to attend Narcotics Anonymous meetings and otherwise go through formal 12-step recovery, but eventually does so. She later falls off the wagon with oxycodone at the end of Season 1. In Season 2 she goes into treatment for drug addiction once more.
** Mae is a cocaine addict and has been clean for years. However, she's very reluctant to attend Narcotics Anonymous meetings and otherwise go through formal 12-step recovery, but eventually does so. She later falls off the wagon with oxycodone at the end of Season 1. In Season 2 she goes into treatment for drug addiction once more.
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* Creator/EwanMcGregor's character in ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'', at least until his friends forced him to go back to heroin.
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* ''Series/BreakingBad'': Jesse Pinkman goes to rehab between season 2 and 3, and while he zig--zags with relapse and recovery in the later seasons, he is very touched and influenced by the group leader, an older man who tells him the story of how he accidentally killed his son in a drunk and cocaine fueled rush to get to a liqour store.
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** After Mae's relapse, Nick, the owner of the comedy club Mae is a regular at, decides to get clean himself and is shown to be going through making amends step of the 12 step program when Mae return.
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* ComicBook/CarolDanvers from ''Fanfic/APrizeForThreeEmpires'' kept getting drunk in order to deal with her past trauma and her fading powers. After she is kicked out of the Avengers and forced by her mother to own up to her addiction, Carol makes a recovery. She slips once, but afterwards she manages to stay clean.
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* ComicBook/CarolDanvers [[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Carol Danvers]] from ''Fanfic/APrizeForThreeEmpires'' kept getting drunk in order to deal with her past trauma and her fading powers. After she is kicked out of the Avengers and forced by her mother to own up to her addiction, Carol makes a recovery. She slips once, but afterwards she manages to stay clean.
