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10	[[quoteright:350:[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_906577_1324475864009_full.jpg]]]]
11	[[caption-width-right:350:We heard chocolate is addictive, but this is ridiculous.]]
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13	->'''Blair''': You sure Layla's asleep?\
14	'''Nina''': Don't worry. I [used] warm milk with ''extra'' honey. She'll be out for ''hours''!
15	-->-- ''Webcomic/EerieCuties''
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17	When writers want to do a VerySpecialEpisode but don't invent a [[LongLostUncleAesop one-shot abuser friend]], they generally feel skittish about having their character suddenly use so-called 'hard' drugs. Coupled with this is the infamous rigidity of [[MediaWatchdog broadcast standards and practices]], who sometimes frown on the depiction of drugs ''even if it is completely negative''.
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19	Thus, any drugs commonly portrayed are just unnamed drugs in a ominous-looking context, such as red-and-white caplets or vaguely white powder. Occasionally over-the-counter but still-unnamed drugs are used, which carries a bit more realism. The writers might also just [[FantasticDrug invent a fictional drug]].
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21	A riskier prospect is to depict a named drug, but with ''ridiculously overblown'' effects considering [[CompressedVice the known real-world impact of the drug and the shortness of the storyline]]. This was [[MarijuanaIsLSD commonly done with marijuana]] despite the public perception of its effects as "bland," and thus a major reason such depictions are avoided in case they are not taken seriously. In any case, the strength of any drug [[SnapBack never seems to result in symptoms of withdrawal in further episodes]].
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23	Alcohol can usually fit the bill, since it's commonly viewed as merely "adult" or even inoffensive and [[CultureJustifiesAnything culturally mainstream]], rather than sinful or dangerous.
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25	In comedies, a complete ''non-drug'' may be treated as if it were, like sugar addicts or milk-alcoholics: that's ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin In SpeculativeFiction, the drug may be entirely fictional, making it a FantasticDrug (which, if it gives superpowers, would be PsychoSerum).
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27	Despite the name of the trope, this can show up in works with adult ratings, not just G-rated/family-friendly works, usually for the following reasons:
28	* MoralGuardians -- and in many cases, the actual creative teams - may feel uncomfortable using real drugs in certain contexts, even if the rating would otherwise allow for it. For example, if the story depicts use of a deadly narcotic as [[DrugsAreGood fun, cool and useful with no bad consequences]], it can sometimes be reasonable to [[CallARabbitASmeerp fiddle]] "opium" into "Tropeium" to prevent unnecessary negative attention and get on with telling the story. This tends to show up in types of work that wouldn't be taken seriously [[ExecutiveMeddling by executives]] as having a valid artistic reason to use a real drug, so tends to turn up in [[SciFiGhetto trashy sci-fi TV]], [[ExploitationFilm lurid exploitation flicks]] or [[MurderSimulators pulpy power-fantasy video games]].
29	* TruthInTelevision! While many G Rated Drugs are fictional or don't work, there are plenty of legal, inoffensive drugs that ''do'' have the ability to make people addicted. Someone trying to make an autobiographical work about their addiction to workout supplements, antitussives or over-the-counter sleep aids will run into this by default.
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31	See also NoSmoking, FrothyMugsOfWater, ToadLicking, DrunkOnMilk, KlatchianCoffee, HighOnCatnip and GRatedStoner.
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33	!!Example subpages:
34	[[index]]
35	* GRatedDrug/WesternAnimation
36	[[/index]]
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38	!!Other examples:
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41	[[folder:Advertising]]
42	* Advertising/BonesCoffee: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HfNGFRvZLo The Ultimate Coffee That Will Heighten Productivity]]", "[[https://www.bonescoffee.com/products/bones-coffee-companys-high-voltage-2x-caffeine High Voltage]]" is portrayed as something akin to cocaine.
43	* There was an entire series of commercials in the 80s/early 90s about people having increasingly agitated monologues about how unfair it is that some circumstances prevented them from getting their morning bowl of Corn Pops, while the theme from ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' played in the background. Surprisingly, these commercials were made by Kellogg's with the implication that the cereal was just that good, ignoring the implications that people who can't get Corn Pops act like junkies going into withdrawal.
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46	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
47	* One chapter of ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' started with Belldandy first drinking everyone under the table at a party, and she explains that alcohol simply has no effect on her. Then she has one can of cola and is instantly intoxicated. HilarityEnsues.
48	* In season 2 episode 4 of ''Literature/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'', Himeji gets drunk off some chocolates she ate. And due to her {{Yandere}} and ClingyJealousGirl tendencies, she and Shouko force their respective {{Love Interest}}s and resident {{Butt Monkey}}s Akihisa and Yuuji to play a strip card game with them. And both girls win pretty handily.
49	* In ''Manga/CardCaptorSakura'', the normally serious Spinel Sun (aka Suppi-chan) gets drunk/high on sugar, and goes crazy after eating just a few sweets.
50	* The Level Upper in ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'' is a sound file that amplifies the powers of any esper that listens to it. However, it comes with the side-effect of causing its users to collapse into a coma. It's distributed illegally throughout Academy City by shady people and it's generally treated as if it were a deadly drug.
51	* Ryuk in ''Manga/DeathNote'' ''needs'' apples! He practically has withdrawal symptoms if he doesn't eat any for a prolonged amount of time.
52	* Chihiro Kawai from ''Anime/PrettySammy'' has an extreme addiction to karaoke, at one point going through withdrawals after her new computer (which she mistook for a high-tech karaoke machine) breaks. In a later episode she even [[BoundAndGagged ties up and gags a bus attendant]] and steals the woman's microphone so she can lead a tour bus in a rendition of one of her songs.
53	* In the ''Literature/WelcomeToTheNHK'' light novel and manga, nearly the first thing we see the protagonist do is snort a small amount of a 'legal drug' he 'brought off the internet'. In the anime, the drug was removed, and the resulting trip was changed from a drug-induced hallucination into a psychotic hallucination.
54	* Chitose in ''Manga/YuruYuri'' gets drunk off chocolates as well, and has a tendency to kiss anyone in the vicinity when she does it.
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57	[[folder:Asian Animation]]
58	* Season 7 episode 39 of ''Animation/HappyHeroes'' is about Lele the FunnyAnimal dog accidentally consuming chocolate and becoming addicted to it (unlike the real-life animal, chocolate is not poisonous to Lele's species of dog alien, though it ''is'' still strong enough to make them delirious). It eventually devolves into Big M. and Little M., both disguised as cats, ''secretly selling him chocolates in a suitcase''.
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61	[[folder:Comic Books]]
62	* In ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational'', ComicBook/MartianManhunter developed an addiction to Oreos, which were later renamed [[BrandX "Chocos"]] due to copyright issues. When ComicBook/BoosterGold and ComicBook/BlueBeetle (Ted Kord) played a prank on J'onn by hiding his Chocos, [[HulkingOut he went on a rampage]].
63	* ''ComicBook/IronMan'' #178 featured a lighthearted story about a group of kids who dress up as the Avengers and pretend to fight crime. In a scene parodying Tony Stark's struggles with alcoholism at the time, Mikey, the club's former Iron Man, is shown aimlessly wandering around Brooklyn without any shoes on and guzzling a bottle of...Coca-Cola. When Mikey begins questioning his own memory, he even says "I ''have'' been hitting the old sugar-water lately."
64	* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' parodies this trope several times.
65	** In "The Comic Pusher", with vintage comic books. Of 2000AD, at that.
66	** Another couple stories center on Umpty, candy that tastes so good it causes cravings. Overlaps as FantasticDrug.
67	** Finally, genuine sugar has been banned - citing numerous health reasons - and in the present of the comic counts as a hard drug. Caffine has been banned for similar reasons.
68	* The ''Knuckles the Echidna'' spin-off series of ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' featured a mini-arc involving the Chaotix investigating the distribution of an addictive substance called [[FantasticDrug Lemon Sundrop Dandelion]], under the guise of secret sauce for a theme park's chili dogs. It had led to the death of one of Charmy the Bee's old friends before the story began. Its hallucinogenic side effects are coincidentally similar to actual LSD (hence the equally-coincidental connection to the comic's drug name).
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71	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
72	* Dandelions were implied to be hallucinogenic, addictive and self-destructive in ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'' several times.
73	* Frequently in ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', whenever Linus is without his blanket, he suffers painful-looking withdrawal symptoms. In one sequence Charlie Brown agrees to keep Linus company during a night in which his blanket is missing. Charlie explains as the punchline, "The first night without the blanket is going to be the hardest."
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76	[[folder:Eastern European Animation]]
77	* ''Animation/KikoRiki'': Honey is treated like one in "[[Recap/KikoRikiEp37TheSweetnessOfHoney The Sweetness of Honey]]", with Barry suffering from an addiction to it that constantly puts him in a bad condition.
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80	[[folder:Fan Works]]
81	* Along with previously established G-rated drugs in ''VideoGame/TheSims4'', ''Fanfic/CatastropheTheory'' treats mood potions as a drug because they're technically mood-altering substances. It's unclear whether taking mood enhancers is habit-forming, but it's highly discouraged by some sims for being unnatural.
82	* In the ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddparents'' fanfiction, ''FanFic/OriginOfThePixies,'' magical beings are subject to getting drunk on sugary substances like candy and soda rather than alcohol.
83	* ''Fanfic/AceLives'': In one of the one-shots, Luffy is banned from drinking caffeinated drinks (specifically, coffee) because it turns him into a hyperactive ball of mass destruction on par with ''Whitebeard''. When the Whitebeard Pirates themselves realize this, Whitebeard orders Marco to dump all the coffee the fleet had, much to his sons' frustration.
84	* ''Fanfic/TheSimpsonsTeamLASH'': Liv's addiction to salty snacks is framed as a parallel to her dad Krusty's [[SmokingIsNotCool smoking habit]], complete with a shot in "The Heiress Diaries" where she puts a French fry in her mouth at the same time Krusty puts a cigarette in his.
85	* ''[[Fanfic/StarWarsVsWarhammer40K Star Wars vs Warhammer 40K]]'': Inquisitorial agent Hecate has a SweetTooth and is constantly eating candy... because sugar turns out to be a placebo for the ''real'' FantasticDrug she is addicted to.
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88	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
89	* While ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}'' is rated PG-13 for its FamilyUnfriendlyViolence and terror, 8's addiction to [[FantasticDrug magnetism]] still fulfills this trope.
90	* Archibald Snatcher, the BigBad of ''WesternAnimation/TheBoxtrolls'', is obsessed with cheese as a status symbol, even though eating it causes a violent allergic reaction that not only [[BodyHorror makes his face swell up in a nasty fashion]], but causes him to act like a surly drunk and even hallucinate at one point. One of his lackeys, Mr. Pickles, even warns him "You know what cheese can do to you..."
91	* While ''Animation/FantasticPlanet'' is hardly G-rated, the film abounds with drug imagery, drug effects, hallucinatory other-worlds -- and yet, no real drugs.
92	* In ''WesternAnimation/FrozenFever'', Elsa's cold starts to make her act increasingly delirious as the short continues. It's implied the cold medicine Anna got from Oaken didn't help matters (in olden days, it was common for "patent medicines" to contain strong narcotics like cocaine and heroin).
93	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodDinosaur'', Arlo and Spot eat some fruit from the ground. Judging from the hallucinations following, it was well fermented fruit.
94	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTimeIITheGreatValleyAdventure'': Two [[EvilEggEater egg-napping]] ''Struthiomimus'' brothers, Ozzy and Strut, treat eggs like some kind of drug. Ozzy is obsessed with eggs to the point he dedicates a VillainSong of how he loves to crack and taste the eggs in explicit details, while Strut simply wants to stick with a plant-based diet since he's starving and plants are far easier to get than eggs.[[note]]The scientific consensus on ''Struthiomimus'''s diet is that [[ShownTheirWork they are omnivores who mainly fed on plants rather than eggs]].[[/note]] Ozzy, of course, bullies Strut for trying to go clean and insists they shall only eat eggs for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
95	* {{Bowdlerized}} in ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService'' where Kiki and her friends are shown to drink coffee (with no ill effects). The English translation implies they are drinking hot chocolate instead.
96	* Simba pretty much uses the philosophy of Hakuna Matata in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' in the same way some drug addicts use drugs to solve their problems.
97	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Sahara}}'', Gary the snake can't help but inhale flower pollen every chance he gets.[[spoiler:He willingly refuses to do this near the end of the film however, as helping Ajar rescue his sister is more important]].
98	* During ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie'', [=SpongeBob=] gets a hangover from too much ice cream.
99	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}'': The Trolls are this to the Bergens. They serve as psychedelic drugs that when consumed orally, they help make a Bergen feel happiness. Poppy helps the Bergens realize they don't need to eat Trolls to be happy as [[ItWasWithYouAllAlong they had happiness in them all along.]]
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102	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
103	* In ''Film/ChuckECheeseInTheGalaxy5000'', there's "Zoom Gas." The antagonists flood their cockpit with it then start acting all giddy and driving at absurd speeds. Hmmm....
104	* El Indio in ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore'' smokes what is presumably marijuana, but it's never mentioned exactly what it is. There's a few points where we see him so stoned he falls asleep with his eyes open or ends up giggling uncontrollably, but other than that the film deliberately makes it unclear whether Indio's psychotic behavior is caused by the drugs, or whether he's actually medicating a mental illness with them and without them he'd be even worse. (The fact that he twitchily requests joints from his underlings ''after'' killing people for trivial reasons supports this interpretation). Presumably, the intention was to placate MoralGuardians in America, without ending up in the ''Film/ReeferMadness'' hysteria school by claiming weed will turn you into a bipolar rapist.
105	* ''Film/TheHappytimeMurders'', despite being an R-rated film, has this in the form of sugar and sugar-based products (e.g. rock candy, syrup, etc.), which are treated as hard drugs for puppets.
106	* Radagast in ''Film/TheHobbit'' feels the effects of Gandalf's pipe-weed, and Saruman later comments disapprovingly on his consumption of mushrooms. At the risk of informing you of something you already know: Tolkien '''unambiguously''' intended "pipe-weed" to be interpreted as ''Nicotiana'', not ''Cannabis''. Though tobacco does contain, as the genus name indicates, ''nicotine'', and that can give people who aren't used to it a "buzz".
107	* The Extremis serum in ''Film/IronMan3'' has some hints of this. Jack Taggart very clearly seems to be going through withdrawal, and Aldrich Killian states that test subjects who can't regulate their dosage properly will be dropped from the trials, as addiction will not be tolerated.
108	* ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'' features a peach, which after all is just a peach, but seems to operate a lot like a hallucinogenic roofie.
109	* The Lotus Hotel in ''[[Film/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians The Lightning Thief]]''. While in the [[Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians book]], it was the [[LotusEaterMachine arcade games]] that kept you there, the film has them literally [[Literature/TheOdyssey eat lotus blossoms]] during their stay. This is treated as them getting high.
110	-->'''Annabeth:''' I think I figured it out, I know why we're here.\
111	'''Percy:''' Why are we here?\
112	'''Annabeth:''' To '''HAVE FUN!'''
113	* The drug-fueled, hallucination-laden madness that is ''Film/NakedLunch'' (the film, at least) revolves around Lee's addiction to... extermination powder? Granted, it was meant as an indirect adaptation of the original novel, in which heroin was the culprit.
114	* ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' averts this with Zydrate. The promo stuff makes it seem G-rated, but then its first appearance in the actual movie is when Grave-Robber extracts it from a corpse, and it has some pretty nightmarish effects. Towards the finale, Amber Sweet, the daughter of the owner of [=GeneCo=], Rotti Largo, has [[spoiler:her face fall off]] because of [[spoiler:a shoddy, last-minute surgery to fix her accidentally-scarred face right before the opera.]] The really nightmarish thing is that ''she isn't screaming'' because she's so high off Zydrate. The nightmarish effects are because, when you're ''extracting it from a corpse'', it's bound to be a little less than 99 44/100% pure. The official [=GeneCo=] version just seems to be a very effective (and incidentally addictive) painkiller.
115	* In ''Film/TheSmurfs'', Grouchy has a scene in which he overindulges in M&M's and [[InVinoVeritas has a "candid" conversation]] with a green M&M plushie.
116	* According to actor Creator/TopherGrace, his portrayal of ComicBook/{{Venom}} in ''Film/SpiderMan3'' was deliberately meant to [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything evoke the image of a drug addict]], with the symbiote substituting for any actual substance abuse.
117	* In ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', Xavier being dependent on his medicine, and suffering intense pain from his powers returning when he stops taking it, is about the closest a PG-13 film can come to depicting the effects of drug abuse and withdrawal.
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120	[[folder:Literature]]
121	!!Authors
122	* Creator/JasperFforde loves this trope
123	** Characters in ''Literature/ShadesOfGrey'' use different colours as recreational drugs. "Lime" is seen as a gateway drug, while "Lincoln" is more dangerous.
124	** In ''Literature/NurseryCrime'', bears are addicted to porridge.
125	** In the Britain of ''Literature/ThursdayNext'', cheese is a controlled substance.
126	* In Creator/MercedesLackey's modern urban fantasy books, elves react to caffeine the way humans to cocaine. (Give an elf a can of cola and he'll be very happy. Give him a double shot of espresso, and it could kill him if he's not used to it.)
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128	!!Individual works
129	* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', maple and ginger instant oatmeal is highly addictive to the [[PuppeteerParasite Yeerks]], unfortunately it also permanently removes their need to leave their hosts to feed, and drives them insane, although it does also weaken their ability to control the host's body.
130	* In ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', the tour passes by a room where the Oompa-Loompas are drinking "butterscotch and soda" and "buttergin and tonic", which make them "tiddly".
131	* In Kage Baker's ''[[Literature/TheCompanyNovels Company]]'' series, the cyborg process gives (along with superpowers) immunity to all the usual drugs -- but, unexpectedly, cyborgs get stoned on chocolate.
132	* Touched on in ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' novel ''Literature/TheDrawingOfTheThree''. Roland is in the body of Eddie, a drug user who is currently drug running to get his fix. When Eddie gives Roland a hot dog and Pepsi, he has a major sugar rush and wonders, dumbfounded, why someone would need heroin when something like this (sugar) is widely and legally available.
133	* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', pizza is this for pixies. Harry Dresden keeps a small army of them on as retainers for recon work and other support jobs (plus picked up a faerie extermination squad to keep roaches and rats out) in exchange for a weekly "bribe" of hot, fresh pizza. Lampshaded in ''Literature/{{Changes}}'' when Harry does this in front of Sanya.
134	-->'''Sanya:''' You are a drug dealer. To tiny faeries. For shame.
135	* In ''Literature/TheFalconer'' the small faery Derrick gets drunk on honey.
136	* The Creator/StrugatskyBrothers' novel ''Literature/TheFinalCircleOfParadise'' has an agent being sent to a seaside resort to investigate a number of mysterious deaths that may indicate an overdose by a new drug. His goal is to find the suppliers and the manufacturers, so it can be shut down before spreading to other places. Everyone is reluctant to talk about it, but someone lets it slip that the drug is called "slug" (or "slag" in the original version), which turns out to be a "[[AppliedPhlebotinum vacuum tubusoid]]", a cheaply-made commonly-available electronic component that someone accidentally inserted into a radio receiver (it has the same shape as a heterodyne receiver) while taking a bath, resulting in an LSD-like effect enhanced by adding aroma-salts to the bath water and taking a few anti-mosquito tablets. At the end, the agent fails to convince his superiors that this is not your typical drug ring and quits, deciding to fight the threat to human civilization (i.e. everybody spending their days in bathtubs with the "slug" plugged in) by changing the way people think.
137	* Averted on multiple occasions in ''Literature/HankTheCowdog'' In the first book, Hank gets drunk on fermented corn--which he goes out of his way to inform the reader is alcoholic, complete with slurred speech, loss of balance, and a DrunkenSong. It happens again in a later book, where he tricks a monkey into opening bottle of beer from the fridge which they both share. Another Drunken Song ensues. The cowboys are also frequently seen chewing tobacco.
138	* In ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'', Dakota, a son of Bacchus, is addicted to Kool-Aid. With three times the normal sugar.
139	* In Hal Clement's "Iceworld" the aliens suffer a single dose activated addiction to nicotine that will kill them if they are not forever supplied with the drug.
140	* The ''Franchise/StarWars'' [[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]] introduces us to the Arcona species, for whom simple salt acts as a hallucinogen. The innocent-sounding "spice" is a stand-in for drugs, with the most common being glitterstim (basically space LSD), and a {{shout out}} to ''{{Franchise/Dune}}''.
141	* In Julie Cross's ''Literature/TempestANovel'' Adam drinks a 6 pack of red bull and ends up wired for the rest of the night. It's stated that even a single can of coke keeps him up all night building bridges out of toothpicks.
142	* Mr Tulip in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/TheTruth'' is addicted to the ''idea'' of drugs, and is noted several times as taking various substances ''as if'' they were drugs, regardless of what effects such substances might actually have. He's been known to snort things like mothballs, for example.
143	* ''Literature/VampireAcademy'':
144	** Moroi and Strigoi release endorphins when they feed. This is treated as seriously as any other drug, however. There are three notable references to the drug-like qualities.
145	** Those that are "feeders" are perfect examples. They allow the Moroi to drink from them in return for the high. Those who have been a feeder for a long time are portrayed to be very out of it, almost constantly high.
146	** Blood Whores are Dhampires that let Moroi feed on them. While feeders are treated with respect, Blood Whores, surprisingly, are not. [[spoiler:Rose has to deal with something similar in the first book, as when she ran away with Lissa, she would allow Lissa to feed on her.]]
147	** [[spoiler:When Strigoi Dimitri captures Rose, he keeps her incapacitated by feeding off of her.]]
148	* In ''Literature/{{Worldwar}}'' by Creator/HarryTurtledove, it turns out that [[AlienCatnip ginger is an extremely addictive drug to the Race]] (with effects similar to cocaine) and within a few months of the invasion, drug smuggling rings have sprung up and humans are exploiting the addiction. [[spoiler:The bigger problems start when females arrive and it turns out that ginger sends them into estrus (they normally mate in seasons). This results in two new institutions among the Race: prostitution and romantic love.]]
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151	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
152	* In a combination of this and (heh) CrackIsCheaper, ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'' had Dick becoming obsessed with [[Toys/BeanieBabies Fuzzy Buddies]] and wasting much of the Solomons' finances on them.
153	* ''Series/{{ALF}}'': Alf once got addicted to cotton, where the effects seem like a combination of being both high and drunk.
154	* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' replaced Roy Harper's heroin addiction from the comics with a dependence on a fictional Japanese PsychoSerum called "Mirakuru."
155	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' had magic during season 6, especially during the episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E10Wrecked Wrecked]]".
156	* In ''Series/CaliforniaDreams'' they had a very special episode in which one of the girls is convinced to take steroids to qualify for an Olympic volleyball team. She's eventually found out, and has an intervention (complete with breakdown in the middle of the local teen hangout) after which it is never referred to again.
157	* Creator/StephenColbert's painkiller addiction on ''Series/TheColbertReport'', which lasted for the duration of [[WrittenInInfirmity the actor's wrist injury]]. The broken wrist [[RealLifeWritesThePlot was real]]; the painkillers were [=SweetTarts=].
158	* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E4NightmareOfEden Nightmare of Eden]]" has the drug Vraoxin, an organic substance whose origin are unknown but whose properties are ultimately lethal.
159	* ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'' features a mysterious "memory drug" in the season one episode "Echoes". Supposedly, it triggers suppressed memories. Effectively, the characters in contact with it act like they are on a strong psychotic substances like mescaline.
160	* In ''Series/FamilyTies'', Alex Keaton becomes addicted to unspecified "diet pills" (in the days when [[ValuesDissonance this would likely be an amphetamine or NDRI]]) which operate as a stimulant, in an attempt to handle the stress of scholastic life. He eventually crashes, missing the big exam that has been the build-up of the entire sequence.
161	* In ''Series/{{Farscape}},'' one episode has the crew travelling back in time to Earth through a wormhole. They arrive on Halloween, and Rygel gets hopped up on sugar, acting a bit like a crack/speed addict.
162	--> '''Rygel''': Chrichton! How illegal is this dren?
163	* An early ''Series/FirstWave'' episode reveals that ordinary table salt has a cocaine-like effect on the Gua (either that or it's an unintended side-effect of their HalfHumanHybrid husks). Later, Gua salt dens are found. It's shown that any Gua caught ingesting salt is [[DisproportionateRetribution executed]].
164	* In one episode of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', when the price of Beluga Caviar goes up at the local gourmet store, the Crane brothers encounter a Russian man who is willing to sell some to them at a much lower price. The plot plays outmuch like the Cranes becoming cocaine dealers for their friends, as they also rope in Roz as their runner, who gets [[GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply addicted to the caviar]].
165	* For some reason, in the original ''Series/HawaiiFiveO'' episode "Up Tight", every reference to LSD was removed and the word "speed" substituted. The women's behavior when they were using it, and the charismatic Leary-like guru who dispensed it, all indicated LSD, not speed.
166	* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' plays this for laughs, having Future!Ted refer to marijuana as "sandwiches" in order to avoid outright mentioning the drug to his kids, and the live action has the characters eating sandwiches and laughing hysterically afterward. In one episode they baked a bag of "sandwiches" into brownies. There are other (intentional) logic holes too:
167	--> The dean is coming! ''Put out your sandwich!''
168	* From ''Series/{{iCarly}}'':
169	** In the episode "iDo", Sam wears a meatball patch. It works like a nicotine patch, but is supposed to reduce her [[BigEater cravings for meat]]. She's wearing several, and they don't seem to be working.
170	** Canadian fatcakes are illegal in America for some reason
171	** In "iLost My Head in Vegas", Gibby eats an entire bag of sugar, reacts like he's having a bad trip, tells Freddie he's freaking out and then screams "I'm falling".
172	* ''Franchise/KamenRider'' has sometimes used the drug metaphor for whatever's turning people into the MonsterOfTheWeek:
173	** The Gaia Memories in ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'' give their users superpowers, but improper use results in addiction, insanity, and withdrawal symptoms. It doesn't help that people who use them are called Dopants. Don't even think about mainlining one; it ''will'' mess up your body. And may your deity of choice help you if you get an adulterated Gaia Memory from a shadier-than-usual dealer...
174	*** And most Dopants only use one Memory for a VERY good reason, the only one shown to have used more than one (in fact a large number) got a VERY disturbing death.
175	** Zodiarts Switches in ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'' have a very similar effect to the aforementioned Gaia Memories, with the major difference being that Zodiarts Switches are Magical Space Drugs instead of Magical Earth Drugs.
176	** Lock Seeds in ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'' don't have any drug-like effects with their usual use of summoning Invase {{Mon}}s, but they're sold by a shady character named Sid, who dresses and behaves suspiciously like a drug dealer. It doesn't help that Sid and his superiors have an ulterior motive and specifically target kids because they're immature and don't know better.
177	*** ...But for ''less'' usual uses, the drug effects become more apparent. For starters, any Invase that eats a Lock Seed goes OneWingedAngel. The Riders also use Drivers to use the Seeds' powers on themselves; and when one gets his Driver destroyed he definitely seems to be going through power withdrawal (including hallucinations). And then there's the fruit that the Seeds come from, which is [[ArtifactOfAttraction supernaturally tempting]] and - while apparently safe for Invase to eat - [[spoiler:causes a transformation into a mad Invase]] when consumed by humans.
178	* In an episode of ''Series/KenanAndKel'', Kenan challenges Kel to stop drinking orange soda for a week, it leads to Kel acting like he is going through a drug abstinence, including shakings and nightmares.
179	* In an episode of ''Series/MythBusters'', Tory Grant and Kari tested a myth about smugglers smuggling contraband across borders by driving with no lights on to evade detection. The (theoretical) contraband being smuggled in this scenario? Canadian maple syrup.
180	* ''Series/TheNanny'': In "Shopaholic", Fran becomes addicted to shopping in order to cope with her ex-boyfriend Danny's engagement to Heather Biblow. She even goes through withdrawals and has to have a "fix" via smelling shopping receipts.
181	* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': Abby and her Caf-Pow! It's definitely treated like a coffee addiction; there's episodes of her trying to quit and episodes that mention that she drinks '''a lot''' of Caf-Pow.
182	-->''[Gibbs walks into her lab with his hands behind his back]''\
183	'''Abby:''' What are you hiding?\
184	''[Gibbs reveals a Caf-Pow]''\
185	'''Abby:''' Oh no! It's too late, I can't.\
186	''[Gibbs reveals a No Caf-Pow]''\
187	'''Abby:''' Gibbs, you are an enabler. And I love you for it. ''[takes both of them]''
188	* ''Series/OddSquad'': In place of more adult beverages like beer and wine, Oprah drinks juice. Her daily intake tops one thousand juice boxes a day before she decides to cut back to one hundred. In "Xs and Os", she goes through withdrawal symptoms after weaning off of juice to save money due to overspending, to the point where she becomes a TechnicallyLivingZombie and needs only a single juice box from Otis to return to normal. The liquid seems to be alcoholic only to her, as other characters are shown drinking juice without getting drunk off of it, whether it's due to them [[NeverGetsDrunk being able to withstand its effects]] or otherwise.
189	* ''Series/RadioEnfer'': In the second episode of Season 2, Camille takes some pills to lose weight she gained during summer vacation. She ends up doing and saying things that made no sense, like sharpening a felt-tip pen and obsessing over an extremely tiny stain on her desk.
190	* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'': Sabrina gets addicted to pancakes, which isn't THE family secret, but ''a'' family secret.
191	* In ''Series/SamAndCat'', Sam drinks root beer the way adults drink regular beer.
192	-->'''Sam (yelling at Cat)''': I drink root beer because of you!
193	* ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' had Jessie, caffeine pills, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bflYjF90t7c one of the most memorable scenes in the history of television.]]
194	* ''Series/{{Sliders}}'':
195	** In an episode, the main characters slide into a Prohibition-like world, where caffeine has taken the place of alcohol. Along with the clothing and music styles of the 20s, they also got speakeasies, where coffee is sold in tiny bags for $5 each, gangsters, and corrupt cops.
196	** Another episode has the opposite: a world where there are no illegal drugs, and being an addict is mandatory. Cops walk around with tranq guns to calm down those who have gone off meds, until they can get an implant that allows easy injections directly into the bloodstream.
197	* ''Series/SmallWonder'' had an episode called "Vicki and the Pusher." Instead of consuming the drug she obtained in the schoolyard, Vicki hid it in a flowerpot.
198	* When Floyd buys a deluxe barbecue grill in the ''Series/SmartGuy'' episode "Diary of a Mad Schoolgirl," he (and eventually [[DropInCharacter Mo]]) develop an addiction to using it, to the point of stuffing nothing but meat in the fridge, and seeing nothing weird or dangerous about grilling in ''the middle of a thunderstorm''. Yvette tries to hold an intervention, but it just goes over Floyd and Mo's heads. In TheStinger of the selfsame episode, Floyd and Mo are grilling... in the midst of heavy snowfall.
199	-->'''Floyd''': The o-ostrich burgers are r-ready.\
200	'''Mo''': I c-can't feel my t-toes.
201	* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
202	** The first season episode "Symbiosis", which featured a planet of people addicted to the narcotic "felicium" because it was a virus cure (and therefore {{invok\|edTrope}}ing this trope) and another planet that did nothing but supply the drug even after the disease it was supposed to treat had long been eradicated, since the residents were so addicted to it.
203	** The episode "The Game" that did it with a video game that [[spoiler:directly affected neurotransmitters in all kinds of ways]] and was described constantly as addictive.
204	* Parodied (in their usual absurd fashion) by ''Series/TimAndEricAwesomeShowGreatJob'' with an advertisement for the fictional children's product, the Cinco i-Jammer and e-Bumper. The device is a [[http://youtu.be/9I2tEybYDu0 digital jukebox with "two revolutionary dance tones,"]] which clearly seem to have some form of highly questionable effect. Then, you factor in the fact that it makes you so wonky that you have to eat food paste ("Oh Hungee")
205	* ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' has:
206	** Bibble, a sugary candy from Britain. Cat gets addicted to it, bringing a wheelbarrow full of the candy wherever she goes. Her friends try to get her off the candy, giving her [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything bibble-flavored gum]] as an alternative. Eventually, her parents hire a bodyguard to stop her from eating bibble. Bibble is mentioned in Cat's SpinOff show, ''Series/SamAndCat''.
207	** André sitting alone drinking 'chocolate beverage' in "The Diddly-Bops" is suspiciously similar to an alcoholic.
208	** In "How Trina Got In", Sikowitz drinks some bad coconut milk. From the looks of it, bad coconut milk is a hallucinogen...
209	* ''Series/WandaVision'': In "[[Recap/WandaVisionEpisode2DontTouchThatDial Don't Touch That Dial]]", Vision, an android pretending to be a human, accidentally swallows some chewing gum and it clogs his internal machinery. As a result, his behavior swerves from prim and proper to extremely cocky and inebriated.
210	* ''Series/WelcomeBackKotter'': The episode "What Goes Up ..." featured Freddie (one of the show's four main students) becoming addicted to painkillers after being prescribed them to heal a basketball injury. He convinces a scared Horshack that the pills are really just "vitamins" (but is unsuccessful with his teacher or other friends), only seeing the light when Horshack tries to contact the pusher who sold Freddie the pills.
211	* ''Series/TheYoungOnes'': "Vyv - can you actually, like, kill yourself with laxative pills?"
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213
214	[[folder:Music]]
215	* In Froggy Fresh's two-part music video 'Fun Trip', recurring protagonist James gets all the kids in town hooked on a the titular powdery blue candy (made with pure Brazilian sugar). It turns users into blue-eyed addicts, and withdrawal requires two weeks to detox.
216	* As recorded on ''Music/TheHamiltonMixtape'', Lin-Manuel Miranda's part in "Wrote My Way Out" compares being without his pen to being in withdrawal and he begs someone to give it back to him.
217	* Music/{{Eminem}}:
218	** Several early Slim Shady songs use real drugs that Slim consumes in impossible ways:
219	*** In "Any Man", Slim gets high on weed by injecting it.
220	*** In "Greg":
221	---->Fuck an acid tab, I strapped the whole sheet to my forehead\
222	Waited 'til it absorbed in and fell to the floor dead
223	*** In "Off The Wall" Slim gets high on Tylenol by holding the pills in his palms into they melt into his pores.
224	** In the radio edit of "My Name Is", Slim drives dangerously while high on Kool-Aid. (Since it comes in a verse which is largely about him struggling with his suicidal urges, this [[DrinkingTheKoolAid is arguably darker than the original]].)
225	** In "Still Don't Give A Fuck", Slim Shady gets high on laxatives. Eminem apparently wrote this in response to the censorship he faced for his drug lyrics, finding it hilarious that you could rap about destroying your colon but not your mind.
226	** The D12 song "Purple Pills" is an over-the-top parody of an OdeToIntoxication, describing the stupidity and violence of the group as they go on a night-out/shameless drug binge. The famously incoherent radio edit, "Purple Hills", replaces the drug references with legal substances, meaning that Kon Artis is freaking out, losing feeling in his limbs, nearly dying of an overdose, and hallucinating leprechauns due to being on "Tums - the Ex-Lax is gone".
227	** Throughout ''Relapse'', Slim consumes absurd amounts of [[BrandNamesAreBetter branded]] pharms, many of which are not even recreational - like Zantac (a drug used to treat IBS), Ventolin (an asthma inhaler), Seroquel (an antipsychotic)...
228	** For a more dramatic example, [=NyQuil=] tends to show up in Em's post-overdose discography as if it was a much harder drug than the tame over-the-counter sleep aid that it is. The reason for this is that, during the height of Eminem's sleeping pill addiction, [=NyQuil=] was a serious trigger for him; he'd resort to [=NyQuil=] to treat his rebound insomnia, but if he messed up with the dose it would make him extra wired and would end up back with him swallowing handfuls of Ambien. [=NyQuil=] therefore tends to turn up as a metaphor for his addiction altogether.
229	** Several songs ("If I Had...", "Any Man", "I'm Shady" and "Lucky You") mention Mini-Thins, a legal ephedrine supplement sold as a weight loss aid, but frequently abused by people not able to get good drugs. During Eminem's drug addiction, he himself had issues with another ephedrine supplement, Xenadrine, marketed as a workout supplement, which he used to abuse to deal with the side effects of his addiction to sleep medication (and which gets a shoutout in "We Made You").
230	* In the second Music/TylerTheCreator verse in "OLDIE", he brags:
231	-->Um, I was 15 when I first drew that donut\
232	5 years later, for our label yea we own it\
233	I started an empire, I ain't even old enough\
234	To drink a fucking beer, I'm tipsy off this soda pop
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236
237	[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
238	* ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'':
239	** The show has an episode about thornoids, which are sentient drugs meant to increase strength and muscles size, but have side-effect of growing thorns.
240	** Another episode focuses on Robbie and Spike happening upon a plant in the forest which they eat, and become high. Robbie brings it back home and soon Earl and Charlene get high on it, and Earl brings it to work where everyone ''there'' eats it too -- including his boss Mr. Richfield -- and they're in a marijuana-like high for most of the episode, eventually running out of food in the house. In the end, they go back to the forest to find more of the plant, only to find Spike -- who never left where he was -- covered in dirt and leaves after just being high in the forest for a week. Robbie then lampshades this by breaking the fourth wall and telling the audience that drugs are bad because drug use compels sitcoms like ''Dinosaurs'' to do obligatory drug-PSA episodes like this one.
241	* ''Series/FraggleRock'' had "Wembley's Wonderful Whoopee Water," which, based on the description, was basically a clear caffeinated soda. Unusually, the episode that featured it was NOT about drugs, but a GreenAesop; it was procuring the whoopee water that was dangerous, not its use.
242	* ''Series/TheMuppetsMayhem'': During a camping trip the Electric Mayhem (except Zoot who doesn't eat sugar) and their manager Nora eat some marshmallows that expired in [[WayPastTheExpirationDate June 1992]], 30 years before the episode takes place. The marshmallows cause everyone to vividly hallucinate as if they'd taken something ''much'' stronger.
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244
245	[[folder:Radio]]
246	* Children's radio show ''Radio/{{Jungle Jam and Friends}}'' had an episode in which characters discover that they get a pleasant buzz from being knocked on the head by a falling coconut, a practice they refer to as "clunking." What follows is a perfect metaphor for the controversy surrounding the consumption of cigarettes, complete with political rallies, discussions about the dangers of "second-hand clunking," and the eventual revelation of a fatal outcome for the clunker: terminal hiccups.
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249	[[folder:Theatre]]
250	* In ''Theatre/{{Heathers}}'', the song "Freeze Your Brain" has JD narrating how he regularly induces brain-freezes with slurpees as an escape from his miserable life. One of his lines in the song is even, "Who needs cocaine?" That said, there's nothing else G-rated in the musical about suicide, underage sex, and school violence.
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252
253	[[folder:Video Games]]
254	* In one of the first questlines in ''VideoGame/CallahansCrosstimeSaloon'', you're tasked with saving an endangered jungle-dwelling variant of chocolate bean plant, considered to produce the tastiest chocolate in the world. In order to convince the land owner to spare the bean (he wants to clearcut the area for wood) you have to make a bar of the stuff with an extremely makeshift process that is crude, clumsy and missing many necesseary ingredients... and the taste is still enough to briefly send the man into an euphoric fugue state, after which he's completely sold on preserving the plant, even if it means giving up the logging business. You're later informed that the plant was saved, and the owner became insanely wealthy producing chocolate... chocolate that had to be classified as a drug and restricted, because it was just that good. The owner had unrestricted access and died very happy, weighing about as much as a SUV and having to be buried by collapsing his house because the body couldn't be carried.
255	* ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' has [[FoulFlower Cagney Carnation's]] fuzzies, whose attacks become a quickie type of drug in the patched version in that if you get hit by one, [[InterfaceScrew the entire screen will get blurry and distorted]] (and the sound will get static-y) for a second or two.
256	* In ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'''s Nintendo 64 port, the Steroids were renamed "Vitamin X".
257	* All of the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' games use made-up drugs (called "chems") with drastic effects far beyond those of real-world drugs (for example, drinking a beer will make the character objectively stronger for a short time, letting him/her carry more and use heavier equipment). ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' was set to contain real-world morphine, but Australian {{Moral Guardian}}s led to the game being banned until "morphine" was replaced with the generic "Med-X." ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' even introduces "Fixer," an anti-drug that will kick your addictions in exchange for some InterfaceScrew.
258	** The series also subverts this, since the drugs and their beneficial effects are fictional, but prolonged use will cause harmful effects and create stat-damaging dependencies that have to be treated.
259	* The first two entries in Creator/{{Gameloft}}'s ''VideoGame/{{Gangstar}}'' series of [[FollowTheLeader ''Grand Theft Auto'' clones]] has players engage in what appears to be a drug-dealing minigame[[note]]Predating ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoChinatownWars'' by three years[[/note]], though ''Crime City'' and ''Kings of L.A.'' were censored to the point that narcotics are instead substituted with confectionery products.
260	* ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' has Norman Jayden, an FBI agent with a Boston accent that comes in and out from line to line and a powerful addiction to blue luminescent powders, even more over the top in the end because it's hard to know what's coming from the drugs/withdrawal, his magic sunglasses from the future or the way he himself seems a bit unhinged to begin with.
261	** The addiction is treated as something akin to an addiction to painkillers, since he takes the medication to stave off the side effects of using his future police glasses (which include blinding headaches, nausea, and occasional loss of basic motor functions). Throughout the whole game he walks a fine line between using the glasses too much and taking too much medication to compensate. There is actually at least one instance where the player can make the choice to press on with the case (and risk further damage to [[HollywoodNewEngland Nahman's]] system) or to quit and save him the trouble (at which point the player switches to another one of the playable characters).
262	** Though the ARI (afformentioned future-glasses) are actually capable of permanent damage. Three endings illustrate this. Two of these [[spoiler:are [[DeaderThanDead more permanent]] than [[InterfaceScrew the third]]]]. It has these effects even on people who have never used it. Norman has [[OhCrap 20 thousand points]] in an ongoing game of VR pong.
263	* One of ''[[VideoGame/MontyMole Impossamole]]'''s power-ups is a can marked with an S, presumably standing for "steroids", that increases Monty's kick power.
264	* Black ISO-8 is treated this way in ''VideoGame/MarvelContestOfChampions'', with characters referring to it and the abilities it grants like one would crave a drug. The "Contamination" event involves tracking down the source of it, eventually revealing [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Joe Fixit]] to be behind it.
265	* The later installments of ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' have a variant in the form of Dark Chips. The chips are extremely powerful when used in battle, but harms the [=NetNavi=] to use them; said [=NetNavi=] becomes addicted to them with repeated use, until they are too far gone for their operator and they eventually get deleted.
266	* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidV'', the player can gather medicinal plants in order to develop various items, usually drugs or drug-based weapons. As the game could not be seen to endorse real drug manufacture, species associated with illegal drugs were tweaked.
267	** "Golden Crescent", an ancient analgesic cultivated in Afghanistan and used to make InstantSedation weapons, is an opium poppy recoloured blue, a colour impossible for poppies to be in real life. The name 'Golden Crescent' is a traditional name for the area opium is cultivated, though in-game we're informed the plant's name comes from its golden, crescent-shaped leaves ([[InformedAttribute which it does not have]]).
268	** "Haoma" is a central nervous stimulant plant used to make drugs that enhance senses or speed up perception of time. It is said to have been included in a sacred drink named Haoma in Zoroastrianism, but is ''Ephedra sinica'' with the stem and bud colours reversed. (Ephedra is the plant which gives us ephedrine, a stimulant drug and a naturally occurring member of the amphetamine family, and is the most archaeologically evidenced candidate for the active ingredient of Soma, a sacred drink of the ancient Aryan war god cult).
269	** Wormwood and the two Digitalis species are real plants that are medically useful in real life, but the effects of them in the game are not representative of their real purposes. V vapes wormwood for recreation - while wormwood in reality is believed to have some recreational psychoactive effects, these are more along the lines of 'pleasant, stimulated feeling of everything being just right' rather than 'deliriously fast-forwarding an entire day's worth of time'. Digitalis is a valuable drug in the real world for slowing dangerously high heartbeats, but in the game is used to create tranquillisers, and Ishmael makes V instantly alert and resilient to pain with an injection of (digitalis-derived) digoxin in the opening sequence as if it was some kind of intense stimulant.
270	* ''VideoGame/MonsterParty'' used 'pills' that turned Mark into a flying gargoyle that would shoot lasers, essential making him a much more powerful character. The effect would be temporary and would often leave the player scrambling for another pill.
271	* The Treynia and Hydropolis update of ''VideoGame/NiNoKuniCrossWorlds'' has a huge chunk of the people of Treynia addicted to ''Caramel Powder'' courtesy of the [[BigBad Black Circle]]. Side effects include becoming spaced out, speaking slightly incoherently and having a voracious appetite. DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything indeed.
272	* Upon returning from the ruins of old Aperture in ''VideoGame/Portal2'', [=GLaDOS=] explains that the system that allows the core AI to maintain the facility is embedded with a function that gives the AI a jolt of euphoria upon a test subject completing a test. [[spoiler:She's explaining this because she's currently ''not'' the one running the testing. Rather a TooDumbToLive personality core named "Wheatley" is due to some shenanigans earlier in the story. Wheatley initially responds positively to the euphoric state but quickly starts becoming tolerant, which [=GLaDOS=] says is inevitable and the only way she managed to keep from continually craving the sense was because she enjoyed the testing for the sake of science. Without the secondary motivation, Wheatley becomes more ravenous and incensed to see tests completed like an addict needing a new high]].
273	* In ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo20thAnniversary'', Witch accidentally leaves her potions on Primp's schoolyard. Klug mindlessly drinks the stuff and immediately gets ''very'' drunk, resulting in him going through intense mood swings. Lidelle is constantly giggling when Klug meets her later in that same story, implying she too has consumed a potion.
274	* PlayedForLaughs in ''VideoGame/{{Roundabout}}'' where Georgio eats some candy dots and it somehow causes them to have an acid trip. Funnily enough, that scene alone gave the game a "use of drugs" content warning, even though the character is clearly eating candy.
275	* ''VideoGame/TheSims3: Late Night'' has the bubble bar. ''VideoGame/TheSims2'' had the bubble blower, which caused Sims to giggle and even ''float''!
276	* In ''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves'', Rajan is a seller of illegal "spices" and acts very much like a drug mogul. Consume enough "spice", and you might be driven into a rage. And also be highly vulnerable to hypnosis. It's also used for food flavoring.
277	* Fangame ''VideoGame/SonicAfterTheSequel'' has the [[LevelAte Sugar Splash Zone]] and the piles of sugar lying around the stage that give Sonic beady eyes and make him run faster when he runs into them. Cue cocaine jokes.
278	* ''VideoGame/TheWarriors'' has a healing drug called "Flash" that is sniffed.
279	* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld2YoshisIsland'': Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy and [[InterfaceScrew the entire screen will turn Technicolor and swirl, and walking straight will become a challenge]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz-qCyf4yQE Just imagine if it happened to you in real life.]]
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281
282	[[folder:Web Animation]]
283	* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'':
284	** In the ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' "personal favorites", Strong Bad claims [[NoodleIncident he once tried to fly Bubs' Concession Stand]] after drinking an entire glass of soy sauce.
285	** According to "imaginary", too much "blue drink" will apparently warp a child's mind enough to start creating imaginary friends.
286	** At the end of "Characters from Yonder Website", it turns out [[spoiler: Strong Bad and company were hallucinating the mellow, far-out antics of their more crudely-drawn versions after drinking too much expired "Smarty Juice", a beverage which lists such side effects as "drowsiness, euphoria, and unbelievably soothing children's programming."]]
287	* Creator/SamAndMickey's ''Franchise/{{Barbie}}'s Childhood'' reveals in episode three that when their Barbie was too young to drink alcohol, she drank a lot of juice, instead.
288	* ''WebAnimation/StarterSquad'': Bulbasaur is shown to enter a stoned-like state whenever he gets injected with venom from any other Pokémon's Poison Sting attack. Luckily, he's part Poison-type himself and it doesn't cause him any long-term harm.
289	* In episode 2 of ''WebAnimation/TeamNeighborhood'' to cope with the stress of loosing internet the Soldier makes chocolate pudding at 4am and proceeds to snort it like cocaine, leading to a vivid hallucination.
290	[[/folder]]
291
292	[[folder:Webcomics]]
293	%%* [[http://hiddendepths.smackjeeves.com/comics/1358315/004-charmander/ Rare Candy, Zinc, Carbos, etc.]] in ''151 Hidden Depths''.
294	%%* ''Webcomic/AmazingSuperPowers'' [[http://www.amazingsuperpowers.com/2007/12/a-bear-in-the-woods/ found someone's lampshade]].
295	%%* In ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'', gas pills are these to the Sickly Stomach.
296	* ''Webcomic/DICETheCubeThatChangesEverything'': Most Dicers, who are students, are willing to do anything for more Dice to use for themselves, which leads to some of them specifically buying and selling them. These Dicers become mentally weak and violent if they don't get more Dice.
297	* ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'': At one point, Nina switches bodies with her older sister Layla, but doesn't want Layla to wake up and realize what has happened, so right before she makes the switch, she consumes a heavy dose of the most powerful sedative she can imagine:
298	-->'''Nina (in Layla's body):''' Don't worry. I drank warm milk with ''extra'' honey. She'll be out for ''hours''!
299	* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Tedd and Grace spend an evening stoned on catnip while Grace was in a cat form.
300	* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': Meulin and Kurloz apparently get stoned on catnip together. Catnip does have relaxing and euphoric effects similar to weed when smoked by humans in real life, but it's not potent enough to get anyone stoned enough to completely space out for about ten minutes like Meulin suspects 'nip' made her do. Damara is shown smoking a blunt and asks Meenah to get stoned with her, but it's never explained what exactly she is smoking.
301	** Later, there is a powerful magic artifact known as a juju, shaped like a lollipop, the licking of which causes [[PsychoSerum great power]] and [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity great insanity]]. From an outside perspective, it resembles a powerful hallucinogen.
302	** There's also Faygo, which affects trolls in a similar way to how alcohol affects humans. Eridan is fairly unimpressed by it, but Gamzee is more or less addicted to it and Terezi becomes so on the meteor.
303	* ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'': Orange Soda has the effect of making pets drunk.
304	-->'''Miles:''' ''[narrating]'' I must say, I did not expect intoxication was possible from a can of orange soda.
305	* When ''Webcomic/KnightsOfBuenaVista'' covers ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen\|2013}}'', chocolate changes from Anna's TrademarkFavoriteFood to being an addiction, due to minor MinMaxing.
306	* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': Sergeant Schlock is addicted to Ovalkwik mix, which he eats directly from the can - although the [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-02-25 ingredient statement]] suggests it might not be so G-rated, containing among other things nicotine, codeine, and something called "hyper-ephedrine."
307	* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': When Kokoro mentions her ex-girlfriend Outrageous Lime being "too hardcore" for her, Undine has a brief ImagineSpot of Lime offering Kokoro a package of generic drugs resembling cigarettes, helpfully labelled "The Drugs".
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309
310	[[folder:Web Original]]
311	%%* ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'': Linkara can stop collecting old ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' toys any time he wants to, dammit!
312	* ''WebVideo/AutoTuneTheNews'': Steve Buyer warns that lettuce is exactly the same as tobacco, so be careful (and stop regulating tobacco).
313	* Joked about in episode 4 of the ''Podcast/DiscOnlyPodcast''. The four guys talk about giving drug-like street names to cereal after [[WebVideo/The8BitDrummer Jerod]] confesses that cereal is his favorite snack. They even act out drug dealing with cereal.
314	* ''WebAnimation/DrCrafty'': Nurse Worse, being a {{Cute\|MonsterGirl}} FrankensteinsMonster [[CuteMonsterGirl Girl]], gets her drug fix by attaching electric cables to her bolts. When Crafty calls her out on it because of high power bills, she excuses this as being for "medicinal purposes".
315	%%* WebVideo/FrothyPintOfMetal's Happy Viking has one for FolkMetal.
316	* Jimmy, a guest character in ''WebVideo/TheOutCrowd'' snorts garlic powder. Tang and Kool-Aid, sometimes mixed together. You Hoo is this for Prof. Mindy.
317	* ''WebVideo/SMPLive'': Golden apples are illegal contraband on the server, and are treated like drugs, likely due to their in-game buffs that they give when eaten.
318	* Played with in ''WebVideo/TokyoMewMewInANutshell'', where the gymnastics team offers Ichigo steroids so she can look mannish like them.
319	* One of the mods in the LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}}'s ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' mod packs includes a Mana Potion which when drunk can cause random effects like speed boosts, blindness and dizziness. When LetsPlay/{{Duncan\|Jones}} and LetsPlay/{{Kim\|Richards}} discover this, they treat it very much like a drug (and an enjoyable one). They have also referred back to this a few times since.
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