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* ''Series/{{Intergalactic}}'': Candy gets clean with great difficulty, quitting cold turkey before and almost trading sex for a fix but in the end managing.
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* Tuca from ''WesternAnimation/TucaAndBertie'' used to be such an extreme HardDrinkingPartyGirl that she had alcohol poisoning at least once. By the start of the series, she's been sober for six months and aims to keep it that way.
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* In ''Series/DowntonAbbey'', Bates is a recovering alcoholic, or drunkard. It's almost never brought up, but mentioned that it lead to his violent temper. He's quite ashamed of this in the present, and is a strict teetotaler.
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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Willow's storyline in Season 6 involves her becoming [[AddictiveMagic addicted to magic]], using it excessively and for [[MundaneUtility mundane tasks like getting dressed]]. It reaches a head in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E10Wrecked Wrecked]]", where her addiction [[KickTheMoralityPet nearly kills Dawn]], and she swears off its use. She spends several episodes recovering...until Warren shoots Buffy and Tara, resulting in Willow going OffTheWagon and absorbing massive amounts of BlackMagic, becoming [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Dark Willow]] and nearly destroying the world. After that fiasco, Willow spends the TimeSkip between seasons and the early part of Season 7 on a rehab course with the Devon Coven in England, and when she returns, she spends most of the season [[AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength terrified of using magic again]].
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** Billy's father is an alcoholic who's gone through AA.
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->''"Congrats -– you're sober. It will take a while for your body to remember how to metabolize anything that isn't sugar from alcohol, so you're going to be pretty ravenous soon. Eat plenty. You can expect your coordination and balance to improve in a couple of weeks. In two months, you might start sleeping like a normal person. Full recovery will take years, though. It'll be depressing. And it'll be boring. Don't expect any further rewards or handclaps. This is how normal people are all the time."''
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->''"Congrats -– -- you're sober. It will take a while for your body to remember how to metabolize anything that isn't sugar from alcohol, so you're going to be pretty ravenous soon. Eat plenty. You can expect your coordination and balance to improve in a couple of weeks. In two months, you might start sleeping like a normal person. Full recovery will take years, though. It'll be depressing. And it'll be boring. Don't expect any further rewards or handclaps. This is how normal people are all the time."''
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->''"Congrats – -– you're sober. It will take a while for your body to remember how to metabolize anything that isn't sugar from alcohol, so you're going to be pretty ravenous soon. Eat plenty. You can expect your coordination and balance to improve in a couple of weeks. In two months, you might start sleeping like a normal person. Full recovery will take years, though. It’ll It'll be depressing. And it’ll it'll be boring. Don’t Don't expect any further rewards or handclaps. This is how normal people are all the time."''
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* ''Literature/GrassAndSky'': [[spoiler:Grampy used to be an alcoholic. He was friends with the three drunken trespassers, and behaved even worse than they did. Timmi's father spent his childhood in constant fear of Grampy's next bout of drinking. The final straw was after Timmi's sister Rebecca was born, when Grampy went to the hospital demanding to hold her. He grabbed her out of the bassinet and almost dropped her fighting with the nurses. After that, Timmi and Rebecca's parents decided that Grampy was unsafe and cut him out of their life, to the point of [[INeverGotAnyLetters returning his letters to Timmi]]. After that, Grampy sobered up and started attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, but it was too late for his family, and he remained estranged from them for the next six years.]]
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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Willow's storyline in Season 6 involves her becoming [[AddictiveMagic addicted to magic]], using it excessively and for [[MundaneUtility mundane tasks like getting dressed]]. It reaches a head in "Wrecked," where her addiction [[KickTheMoralityPet nearly kills Dawn]], and she swears off its use. She spends several episodes recovering... until Warren shoots Buffy and Tara, resulting in Willow going OffTheWagon and absorbing massive amounts of BlackMagic, becoming [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Dark Willow]] and nearly destroying the world. After that fiasco, Willow spends the TimeSkip between seasons and the early part of Season 7 on a rehab course with the Devon Coven in England, and when she returns, she spends most of the season [[AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength terrified of using magic again]].
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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Willow's storyline in Season 6 involves her becoming [[AddictiveMagic addicted to magic]], using it excessively and for [[MundaneUtility mundane tasks like getting dressed]]. It reaches a head in "Wrecked," "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E10Wrecked Wrecked]]", where her addiction [[KickTheMoralityPet nearly kills Dawn]], and she swears off its use. She spends several episodes recovering... until Warren shoots Buffy and Tara, resulting in Willow going OffTheWagon and absorbing massive amounts of BlackMagic, becoming [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Dark Willow]] and nearly destroying the world. After that fiasco, Willow spends the TimeSkip between seasons and the early part of Season 7 on a rehab course with the Devon Coven in England, and when she returns, she spends most of the season [[AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength terrified of using magic again]].
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* On ''Series/{{Elementary}}'' Sherlock Holmes is a recovering heroin addict and Joan Watson was originally his live-in sober companion before becoming his protege, then partner, then quit to start her own private investigation business.
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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.
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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.oxycodone at the end of Season 1. In Season 2 she goes into treatment for drug addiction once more.
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Note that in real life, societies for addicts looking to go clean such as Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous emphasize that there is no such thing as a recovered addict, an addict is ''always'' in a state of recovery, regardless of how many years they've been sober.
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* The very first episode of ''Series/MurphyBrown'' has the title character returning from rehab for alcoholism. She tries to get back down to business but sincerely questions if she still has her edge. When she goes for the jugular for her post-rehab interview, she's delighted that she does.
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* A group of vampires in the second series of ''Series/BeingHumanUK'' do this under the leadership of Mitchell. They manage to form their own version of AA and go off drinking human blood entirely. Then a group of human vampire hunters bombs their celebration party, destroying quite possibly the only group on {{Friendly Neighborhood Vampire}}s on the planet.
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* A group of vampires in the second series of ''Series/BeingHumanUK'' do this under the leadership of Mitchell. They manage to form their own version of AA and go off drinking human blood entirely. Then a group of human vampire hunters bombs their celebration party, destroying quite possibly the only group on of {{Friendly Neighborhood Vampire}}s on the planet.
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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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* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5799406/1/CoDependence Co-dependence]]'' is a ''Captain Planet'' fanfic about Linka's recovery after she became addicted to [[FantasticDrug Bliss]] in the episode "Mind Games".
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* Zach Hunter from ''Literature/AspergerSunset'' used to have substance abuse problems. Eventually he got clean and became a priest, and now he counsels addicts.
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* Marie of ''Film/MalcolmAndMarie'' is a drug addict who got clean. Her boyfriend Malcolm then created a film about a drug addict in the process of recovery.
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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': Laurel spent much of Season 2 spiraling into alcohol and drug addiction, but eventually turned it around and started attending meetings. She is then shown consistently keeping her sobriety, even when her father at one point bitterly (and quite literally) [[KickTheDog shoves a bottle of liquor into her hands]]. She even comments that she only take aspirin after being in a car crash.
* ''Series/CriminalMinds'' has Dr. Spencer Reid becoming this in later seasons of the show.
* ''Series/ForLife'':
** Henry, Aaron's mentor, is an alcoholic who's sober and is shown reciting the Serenity Prayer, having gone through AA.
** Hassan, one of the inmates, is a recovered drug addict who leads a group for other recovering addicts.
* ''Series/{{Graceland}}'':
** Paul Briggs is a recovering heroin addict, although given that he makes money selling heroin, it's unclear how committed he is to his recovery.
** In the second season, Jakes goes undercover at a bus company that's ostensibly smuggling drugs. His supervisor proudly talks about how he's been sober for 20 years. [[KickTheDog Later in the season, when their investigation goes south and Paul wants some quick answers, he decides to interrogate the poor guy by waterboarding him with a bottle of whiskey.]]
* ''Series/HillStreetBlues'' has Detective [=LaRue=]'s struggle to overcome his drinking problem as the secondary story arc for much of Seasons 3 and 4. [[spoiler: Captain Furillo]] also comes close to a relapse at one point.
** Henry, Aaron's mentor, is an alcoholic who's sober and is shown reciting the Serenity Prayer, having gone through AA.
** Hassan, one of the inmates, is a recovered drug addict who leads a group for other recovering addicts.
* ''Series/{{Graceland}}'':
** Paul Briggs is a recovering heroin addict, although given that he makes money selling heroin, it's unclear how committed he is to his recovery.
** In the second season, Jakes goes undercover at a bus company that's ostensibly smuggling drugs. His supervisor proudly talks about how he's been sober for 20 years. [[KickTheDog Later in the season, when their investigation goes south and Paul wants some quick answers, he decides to interrogate the poor guy by waterboarding him with a bottle of whiskey.]]
* ''Series/HillStreetBlues'' has Detective [=LaRue=]'s struggle to overcome his drinking problem as the secondary story arc for much of Seasons 3 and 4. [[spoiler: Captain Furillo]] also comes close to a relapse at one point.
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** In the second season, Jakes goes undercover at a bus company that's ostensibly smuggling drugs. His supervisor proudly talks about how he's been sober for 20 years. [[KickTheDog Later in the season, when their investigation goes south and Paul wants some quick answers, he decides to interrogate the poor guy by waterboarding him with a bottle of whiskey.]]
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* ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU'': Captain Cragen drank like a fish in his back story. His recovered status is repeatedly brought up. Mostly by Cragen himself.
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** Captain Cragen drank like a fish in his back story. His recovered status is repeatedly brought up. Mostly by Cragen himself.
** Captain Cragen drank like a fish in his back story. His recovered status is repeatedly brought up. Mostly by Cragen himself.
* Larry Zito from ''Series/MiamiVice'' used to be an alcoholic. As of "Down for the Count," he hadn't had a drink in five years and was implied to be attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
* ''Series/MidnightCaller'': Jack Killian's struggles to quit smoking are a minor subplot in the second half of the first season.
* ''Series/MidnightCaller'': Jack Killian's struggles to quit smoking are a minor subplot in the second half of the first season.
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* ''Series/HillStreetBlues'' has Detective [=LaRue=]'s struggle ''Series/OffTheMap'': Dr. Cole used to be addicted to morphine and heroin and consumes candy to stay clean. [[spoiler: When Cole and Mina must retrieve heroin to use as painkillers, he contemplates relapsing, but manages to overcome his drink problem as the secondary story arc for much of Seasons 3 it.]]
* After finally admitting that he's a [[TheGamblingAddict gambling addict]], ''Series/OneLifeToLive'''s Max Holden seeks help and4. [[spoiler: Captain Furillo]] also comes close to a relapse at one point.becomes this trope.
* After finally admitting that he's a [[TheGamblingAddict gambling addict]], ''Series/OneLifeToLive'''s Max Holden seeks help and
* ''Series/WarOfTheWorlds2019'': Sophie is determined to become this by the end of the series, having stopped using drugs despite it making her suffer for Theo, the boy she's basically adopted.
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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': Laurel spent much of Season 2 spiraling into alcohol and drug addiction, but eventually turned it around and started attending meetings. She is then shown consistently keeping her sobriety, even when her father at one point bitterly (and quite literally) [[KickTheDog shoves a bottle of liquor into her hands]]. She even comments that she only take aspirin after being in a car crash.
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* After finally admitting that he's a [[TheGamblingAddict gambling addict]], ''Series/OneLifeToLive'''s Max Holden seeks help and becomes this trope.
* Larry Zito from ''Series/MiamiVice'' used to be an alcoholic. As of "Down for the Count," he hadn't had a drink in five years and was implied to be attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
* ''Series/MidnightCaller'': Jack Killian's struggles to quit smoking are a minor subplot in the second half of the first season.
* ''Series/OffTheMap'': Dr. Cole used to be addicted to morphine and heroin and consumes candy to stay clean. [[spoiler: When Cole and Mina must retrieve heroin to use as painkillers, he contemplates relapsing, but manages to overcome it.]]
* Larry Zito from ''Series/MiamiVice'' used to be an alcoholic. As of "Down for the Count," he hadn't had a drink in five years and was implied to be attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
* ''Series/MidnightCaller'': Jack Killian's struggles to quit smoking are a minor subplot in the second half of the first season.
* ''Series/OffTheMap'': Dr. Cole used to be addicted to morphine and heroin and consumes candy to stay clean. [[spoiler: When Cole and Mina must retrieve heroin to use as painkillers, he contemplates relapsing, but manages to overcome it.]]
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** Olivia also had an alcohol problem at one point and eventually ends up being ''forced'' off the wagon by a madman who has her captured.
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* ''Series/TheMentalist'': Cho is shot during a bust and is given pain medication during his recovery. As the episodes go on we see him popping the pills as needed. Eventually he realizes he's getting addicted to them. Cho [[TheStoic being Cho]], he solves his addiction by flushing the remainder of his pills down the toilet and never takes any again.
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** Olivia Rollins had a recurring gambling addiction that she seems to have kicked for good after "Gambler's Fallacy".
** Lennie Briscoe of the original ''Series/LawAndOrder'' was also a former alcoholic who hadan alcohol problem at managed to sober up for good, although he does [[OffTheWagon backslide]] in one point and eventually ends up being ''forced'' off the wagon by a madman who has her captured.
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** Lennie Briscoe of the original ''Series/LawAndOrder'' was also a former alcoholic who had
* ''Series/TheMentalist'': Cho is
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* Literature/JPBeaumont, the protagonist of a series of mystery novels by Creator/JAJance, drinks very heavily in the early books of the series. He eventually realizes he has a problem and joins A.A., with his step-grandfather as TheSponsor. He remains a recovering alcoholic throughout the later books.[[note]]WordOfGod from Jance, who had been married to alcoholic for several years, is that she did not realize that the level of drinking Beau was undertaking in the early books were warning signs for alcoholism.[[/note]]
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* Literature/JPBeaumont, the protagonist of a series of mystery novels by Creator/JAJance, drinks very heavily in the early books of the series. He eventually realizes he has a problem and joins A.A., with his step-grandfather as TheSponsor. He remains a recovering alcoholic throughout the later books.[[note]]WordOfGod from Jance, who had been married to an alcoholic for several years, is that she did not realize that the level of drinking Beau was undertaking in the early books were warning signs for alcoholism.[[/note]]
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* ''Literature/TheHanSoloTrilogy'': By the time she's shown again in the books, Bria had recovered from her addiction to [[FantasticDrug Exultation]] and become a Rebel.