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15	->''Well one fall day when Uncle Bill was having a cocaine fit\
16	He said Louise this coke's no good and I've made up my mind to quit\
17	Now you take this key and I'll go upstairs and then you lock the door\
18	And Lord I swear I'll stay up there, till I don't want dope no more.''
19	-->-- '''Music/JohnnyCash''', ''When Uncle Bill Quit Dope''
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21	Bob likes his booze. ''[[TheAlcoholic A lot.]]'' He may be a recreational alcoholic, or drinks to [[DrowningMySorrows escape remembering]] his DarkAndTroubledPast. Fate, being a cruel and fickle mistress, has other ideas. Alice drags Bob (usually shambling and slurring rather than kicking and screaming) somewhere without liquor of any kind. The reasons vary; Alice may be doing an intervention, she may be trying to save his life from people out for his blood, or Bob (all by his lonesome) stumbled onto a [[PutOnABus bus]]/ship/plane/rocket/FarsideIsland to a place where the only spirits are of the figurative variety.
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23	Effectively, Bob has been [[TitleDrop nailed to the wagon]] and will be forced to go sober against his wishes. He'll whine, complain and take every opportunity to get a drop of booze. (Oddly, he will seldom see PinkElephants, although in RealLife, they are the consequences of withdrawal rather than drunkenness.) However, once he's over a rather epic hangover and finishes his physical withdrawal, he'll do the emotional equivalent of curling into a ball in a corner because now he can no longer avoid facing his life. If he can resolve whatever emotional hangups were leading him to drink the sadness away, he may decide that being sober is better, and it will stick. If he's fundamentally unchanged, he'll jump OffTheWagon into the nearest vat of beer.
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25	While this kind of gesture is usually well-intentioned, in RealLife completely cutting a person off from physically addicting drugs can cause withdrawal symptoms so severe that [[JustForFun/TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs they could actually die]] from the body's chemical imbalance. So for any readers hoping to help a loved one get off the juice, remember to do so gradually and preferably under a doctor's supervision.
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27	Despite the use of beer in the description, this trope also applies to other forms of drugs. Notably [[NotAMorningPerson caffeine]].
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29	A form of KindRestraints. Compare GoingColdTurkey, when the sudden withdrawal is a voluntary decision on Bob's part. Also see NoMatterHowMuchIBeg, where the character makes the decision to shut himself away from temptation, with friends enlisted to enforce that decision after the fact.
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37	* ''[[Anime/ElHazardTheMagnificentWorld El-Hazard]]''[='s=] Mr. Fujisawa: He hates being sober, but he gains super-strength from it, so the other characters enter a conspiracy to keep him off the bottle. He doesn't take it well. And while El-Hazard does have native alcoholic beverages, in the OAV at least, Fujisawa is also a smoker and El-Hazard has no tobacco equivalent. Fujisawa runs out of smokes about halfway through the last episode and [[MustHaveNicotine the nicotine cravings]] kick in just in time for the finale. Good thing it turns out that it boosts his sober level SuperStrength.
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41	* Franchise/{{Batman}} does this to himself when he gets hooked on Venom. He locks himself up in the Batcave and doesn't come out until he's totally free of the drug.
42	* ComicBook/{{Tintin}}:
43	** ''[[Recap/TintinRedRackhamsTreasure Red Rackham's Treasure]]'' has all his whisky onboard replaced with the pieces to Professor Calculus's submarine; he's none too pleased when he finds steel plates instead of his beloved whisky. Thankfully (for him) he doesn't have to wait ''too'' long after the discovery that his beloved alcohol has gone missing; once the wreck of the ''Unicorn'' is discovered, they find it's full of bottles of rum, which are (surprisingly) still drinkable with only the usual effects.
44	** ''[[Recap/TintinTintinAndThePicaros Tintin and the Picaros]]'' has Captain Haddock getting slipped a drug by Professor Calculus that makes him extremely nauseated whenever he takes a sip of liquor. He's none too pleased when he finds out, but the drug becomes a ChekhovsGun when it's later used to sober up the Picaros so they can launch their revolution (the dictatorship has been parachuting crates of booze to them so they'll be too drunk to shoot straight).
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48	* ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'':
49	** Binkley once forced his father to quit cigarettes cold turkey by disposing of all of those in their house and hiding his wallet and his car keys so he couldn't go out and buy more.
50	** Opus hid Steve Dallas's cigarettes. This might not have been his best idea.
51	*** "Even with nicotine IN his bloodstream, Steve is a maniac!"
52	*** Steve: "WHERE'D YA HIDE 'EM?! ... POUND! POUND! POUND!"[[note]] Steve is trying to break open the bathroom door while tied to a chair, wearing only underpants, and clenching a fire ax ''in his teeth.'' [[/note]]
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56	* ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestria'': Littlepip is tranquilized by Velvet Remedy and dragged to a rehab clinic when her addiction to Party-Time Mint-Alls gets out of control.
57	* ''Fanfic/MariaCampbellOfTheAstralClocktower'': Maria of Cainhurst, like many people in [[VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}} her world]], was addicted to the power in everyone's blood. Even Maria, who started as a WideEyedIdealist and became a WellIntentionedExtremist, had a habit of losing control and drinking her maids dry on a regular basis. Then she gets reincarnated into the world of ''[[Literature/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom Fortune Lover]]'' as Maria Campbell, where she promptly discovers that no one's blood has any power whatsoever. She occasionally tries drinking it anyway, only to invariably be disappointed. She's basically an alcoholic in a world without alcohol.
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62	* In ''Film/TheBasketballDiaries'', Jim's friend Reggie imprisons him in his (Reggie's) apartment and makes him go off heroin cold turkey. He fully detoxes, but eventually relapses. He later gets clean again while doing six months at Riker's, and this time he's able to stay that way.
63	* In ''Film/{{Cornered}}'', the store owner forces his junkie nephew, who is craving for a fix, to stay in the apartment above the store every night until he's well.
64	* In ''Film/{{Dogma}}'', after two drunk angels tell {{God}} to TakeThisJobAndShoveIt, He decrees that the rest of them can no longer drink alcohol. The booze-loving Metatron resorts to sipping and then spitting out his drinks.
65	* In ''Film/FatherGoose'' Walter is nailed to the wagon twice in the same movie:
66	** In the first instance his friend and employer Cmdr. Houghton hides his booze around the island that Walter is using as a coastwatching base, giving him the hiding places only when Walter radios in with Japanese troop movements. Houghton then has to give up all the booze locations as incentive to get Walter to go on a risky mission.
67	** Having got all the booze, the mission turns out to be the rescue of (initially) prudish school teacher Catherine and her students. Catherine then arranges for the children to steal all the booze and hide it again.
68	* To make sure he's sober before his hearing, Denzel Washington in ''Film/{{Flight}}'' is confined to his hotel room with a security guard barring exit and entry, with a mini-bar stocked with nothing harder than Diet Coke. [[spoiler:The unlocked adjacent room, however, has a fully stocked mini-bar.]]
69	* ''Film/Ghost1990'': The "subway ghost" has learned how to manipulate objects (and teaches the protagonist), but not enough to light and smoke a cigarette (which apparently was his addiction when he was living). "I'd do anything for just one drag!"
70	* Nathan Algren in ''Film/TheLastSamurai''. A chronic alcoholic for almost a decade after being forced to [[MyGreatestFailure slaughter an innocent Indian village]], he takes a job in Japan to train Imperial conscripts and is subsequently injured and captured during their first real battle. While he's on the mend, Taka gives him sake at first but then withholds it after seeing how desperately he needs it. Algren asks for sake, then screams for it, then screams period at the guilty memories he can't drown in booze anymore.
71	* ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' has a sexual variant when Sir Galahad the Chaste gets sidetracked to a [[ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere castle full of sex-starved babes]]. He's about to give in when Sir Lancelot nails him back to the wagon in an UnwantedRescue.
72	* In ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'', when Elizabeth and Jack are dropped off on a remote island by Barbossa, Elizabeth is annoyed to discover that, rather than being as remote as Jack led people to believe, it was actually a hideaway for rumrunners. Jack plans to get piss-drunk and does so. After he passes out, Elizabeth takes the opportunity to use all the rest of the rum as fuel for a honking huge signal bonfire. It works, but Jack is more hung up on the fact that ''[[MemeticMutation all the rum is now gone]]''.
73	* In ''Film/{{Resolution}},'' our hero chains his friend to the wall to make him get straight. This turns out to be a ''very bad idea''.
74	* Renton has his parents, in ''Literature/{{Trainspotting}}'', lock him in his room to force himself through withdrawal. In his case, he ''does'' see PinkElephants. Specifically, a baby crawling towards him on the roof. It gets worse, but it sticks eventually.
75	* ''Film/TropicThunder'': Jeff Portnoy is wrestling with a severe drug addiction during the actors' misadventures in the jungle. At one point he asks to be tied to a tree until he "gets it out of his system." He tells the others not to untie him, no matter how much he begs. Predictably, he does, even going as far as to tell Alpa Chino "I will literally suck your dick right now" in exchange for being untied.
76	* ''Film/AYearAndChange'': Owen finds some success with sobriety after breaking both of his arms and is unable to pick up alcoholic drinks on his own.
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80	* An alcoholic, a heroin addict, and a smoker die and go before the pearly gates. Saint Peter tells them that in order to access Heaven, they will be locked in a room with an infinite supply of their favorite drug for a year, and, should they use it even once, they'll go to Hell. One year later, Saint Peter finds the alcoholic laying in a pile of empty bottles and the heroin addict full of needles, but the smoker calmly sits in the middle of the room with not a single cigarette used. Saint Peter congratulates him and asks how he did it. The smoker calmly answers: "You forgot the lighter."
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84	* Eddie of Creator/StephenKing's ''[[Franchise/TheDarkTower Dark Tower]]'' books gets nailed to the wagon when [[spoiler: Roland kidnaps him into a heroin-less Mid-World through a magic door in ''The Drawing of the Three''. Notably, the nailing is permanent]].
85	* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' book ''Literature/ProvenGuilty'', [[spoiler:Molly Carpenter]] inflicts this on a pair of addicts by using BlackMagic to rewire their cravings into prohibitive revulsion for their drug of choice. Although it's effective and well-intentioned, it's also a form of MindRape for overriding their free will, and one of her victims winds up with serious psychological damage because she got careless.
86	* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'':
87	** ''Literature/CatchingFire'': Upon the announcement of the Quarter Quell, Peeta dumps all of Haymitch's liquor, much to the latter's dismay, and caps it off by going to District 12's liquor seller and threatening to turn her in to the Peacekeepers if she sells to him. This is in spite of the fact that Haymitch had previously had a rather terrifying withdrawal when he ran out of liquor, but the sobriety doesn't last long anyway.
88	** ''{{Literature/Mockingjay}}'': Happens to Haymitch again when the survivors of District 12 move into the underground bunkers of District 13, where all alcoholic beverages are strictly forbidden and even the rubbing alcohol in the hospital is locked away. He's kept in seclusion until he recovers enough to be presentable.
89	* As apparent revenge against Maladict ([[AddictionDisplacement a vampire who's managed to replace the blood thirst with something else]]), a soldier in ''Literature/MonstrousRegiment'' steals Maladict's coffee machine and beans, resulting in a vampire getting more and more insane and having mind flashes [[note]]One of his comrades sees not a European-style forest and hills about her but [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar a jungle with a helicopter in the air and looking for "Charlie"]][[/note]] and willing to revert to drinking blood as the book goes on. It turns out Strappi's just a [[TheNeidermeyer bastard]], and it helps that he [[VanHelsingHateCrimes hates Mal]]. Though attempted [[TeamKiller murder]]-by-proxy was maybe not the best way to show it.
90	* Long Joseph in ''Literature/{{Otherland}}'', who was the father to one of the heroes, drank to avoid responsibility for his children and sadness over his wife's death. He's forced sober when they hole up in an abandoned government base to escape assassins.
91	* During the UsefulNotes/GulfWar, P.J. O'Rouke was sent by ''Rolling Stone'' to join the war correspondents in Saudi Arabia, and recounted that because the strictly Islamic nation was dry in more ways than one, some of them sobered for the first time in years (himself possibly included), and found that "what they thought was the pain of genius was actually a hangover".
92	* ''Literature/ProfessorMoriartySeries'': In ''The Revenge of Moriarty'', Moriarty tries to enforce a version of this trope that is ''not'' meant to help the addict by cutting off Sherlock Holmes's cocaine supply, hoping that the withdrawal will mentally destroy him. It turns out that Holmes secretly kicked his cocaine addiction some time ago, and he uses Moriarty's plan to lure the professor into a trap that he barely escapes.
93	* How Ryan Miller of ''Literature/Ripper2014'' got sober: he was entitled to accept help from a program from the Veterans Administration, but he was too proud or too macho for that. A like-minded neighbor had him strip naked and left him by himself in his apartment without any of his clothes, his phone or his computer for three days. He is absolutely miserable and even contemplates breaking out the window. But when she comes to get him, he is clean and manages to stay clean for years.
94	* Creator/PeterBenchley's novel ''Rummies'' has addicts sent to a rehab center that relies on this, forcing its patients to immediately quit and avoid whatever they're addicted to.
95	* Also happens to Jack in King's ''Literature/TheShining'', since all liquor was removed from the Overlook during the hotel's shutdown for the winter.
96	* Paula's parents force her to detox in ''Literature/UglyMemories'' by Creator/MLLanzillotta. This [[Main/TruthInTelevision hurts more than it helps]]. In fact, the withdrawal-induced sleep deprivation indirectly leads to [[spoiler: Paula getting kicked out of rehab]] at the story's climax.
97	* ''Literature/WarsOfLightAndShadow'':
98	** In ''Literature/ShipsOfMerior'', Asandir makes sure that Dakar (a well-established drunk, glutton, and lech) keeps a hastily-given promise (which he fully intends to break) by cursing him so that the finest alcohol tastes like turpentine, the tastiest food tastes like shit, and the thought of getting with a woman gives him sharp pains in his groin until he gets off his stubborn duff and catches up with Arithon.
99	** Later, in ''Literature/{{Warhost of Vastmark}}'', Arithon ensures that Dakar remain sober by pitching all the alcohol over the side of the ship while Dakar is passed out.
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103	* In the ''Series/Babylon5'' episode "Objects at Rest", Londo visits Sheridan and Delenn at their home on Minbar to give them a gift, where there is no alcohol on the premises (or likely easily obtainable on the planet), due to the Minbari having a huge neurological aversion to alcohol that gives them a psychotic reaction to it. This is actually an unfortunate thing for Londo and all involved, given that [[spoiler: alcohol is the only thing that can temporarily disable [[PuppeteerParasite the Keeper]] that controls Londo, and disabling it is the only way that Londo can warn the couple of [[ItMakesSenseInContext the danger of the gift he brings them]]. (Likely the same Keeper also prevented Londo from packing booze for the trip, though he drank plenty on Centauri Prime, where the Drakh who controlled him through the Keeper could watch him directly as well.)]]
104	* This happens to Hal in Season 4 of ''Series/BeingHumanUK'' to get him off blood.
105	* One episode of ''Series/CriminalMinds'' featured an unsub kidnapping drug-addicted young women and keeping them locked in his basement without access to their drugs of choice, forcing them to not only quit but also become healthier in general (he even provided a UV light to compensate for the lack of sun). One of his victims even asks if it's a hardcore rehab program. Of course, that's not his ''actual'' goal. Drug addicts are just easy to get hold of, and he needs the girls healthy so that they can bear his children. If they don't manage that, or worse, give him ''daughters'', he kills them anyway.
106	* In ''{{Series/Eureka}}'', Doctor Grant (who is from the late 1940s and believes SmokingIsCool) is injected with nanobots that hurt him when he smokes.
107	* One episode of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' has him attempt to counsel his agent Bebe into quitting smoking. He ends up holing her up in his apartment for three days, but in the end, all the encouragement she needs is to be reminded that her "85 years old and on his third pacemaker" fiancé won't marry her unless she quits.
108	* Happens accidentally in ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' when The Gang (notably [[{{Hypochondria}} hypochondriac]] Frank) believes they're all coming down with a deadly illness. They're sealed in one of the bar's bathrooms, where their worsening physical conditions lead them to believe they really are dying. Eventually, Charlie reveals he replaced all the cleaning solution with alcohol, and they decide to have [[OneLastSmoke one last drink]]. Several minutes later, they find that all their symptoms have suddenly vanished, and realize that they weren't sick in a traditional sense, but rather going through withdrawal symptoms due to all being severe alcoholics. They decide to save dealing with the latter revelation [[IgnoredEpiphany for a later date.]]
109	* Charlie from ''Series/{{Lost}}'' is a heroin addict until he crashes on the island, where he has no access to drugs. [[spoiler: [[OffTheWagon Or so he thinks.]]]]
110	* ''Series/{{MASH}}'':
111	** Hawkeye and Trapper are forced to remain sober after their beloved still is confiscated by Frank Burns. They are disturbed to discover just how dependent they have become on their rotgut gin.
112	** In another episode, one of BJ's patients turns out to have a morphine addiction. When BJ finds out, he turns to this trope, and after an agonizing (for the patient, at least) [[GoingColdTurkey half an episode]], the patient seemingly kicks the habit.
113	** One episode shows why this can backfire. One of Margaret's old drinking buddies join the nursing staff. When she shows up to the OR drunk, she gets Nailed to the Wagon, promising not to drink. A few days later, delirium tremens hits when she's in a crowded mess tent; Colonel Potter recognizes the symptoms, gets her to the recovery tent immediately for proper treatment, and admonishes Margaret for making her quit cold turkey.
114	* ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'': In the second episode, Earl kidnaps the mother of one of his friends and tries to help her by forcing her to quit smoking while trying to kick the habit himself. Catalina called it the sweetest, most justified kidnapping she's ever seen.
115	* ''Series/StargateUniverse'': Dr. Rush. Involuntary caffeine and nicotine withdrawal (he was a heavy smoker and coffee drinker on Earth but they could only grab emergency supplies and they didn't include coffee or cigarettes) is amongst the reasons why he blacks out in the middle of a rant.
116	* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': In "Broken Pieces", [[TheAlcoholic Raffi]] decides INeedAFreakingDrink.
117	-->'''Raffi:''' Burgundy. ''(replicator beeps, nothing happens)'' Red wine. ''(replicator beeps, nothing happens)''\
118	'''EHH:''' ''(materializing)'' What is the nature of your hospitality emergency?\
119	'''Raffi:''' I need a glass of red wine.\
120	'''EHH:''' You disabled alcohol services from your quarters two days ago.\
121	'''Raffi:''' Reinstate it. [[OverrideCommand Override.]]\
122	'''EHH:''' You locked yourself out of override and... ''(consulting PADD)'' meta-override.
123	* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Dean and Bobby lock Sam up in the panic room to "detox" from demon's blood.
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127	* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', a [[CatFolk Khajiit]] by the name of J'zhar signs both himself and his brother J'darr up for an expedition to a remote ruin in order to break J'Darr's [[FantasticDrug Skooma]] addiction. It doesn't go well, and J'Darr eventually murders his brother with an ax.
128	* In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', following the fourth Palace, the gang spends a week rehabilitating resident {{hikikomori}} Futaba [[spoiler:Sakura, who had spent two years shut away in her room at Sojiro's house due to the trauma of her mother's apparent suicide and the subsequent shunning she received from her family]]. Somewhat [[AvertedTrope averted]] in that, while she takes numerous opportunities to hide behind someone or wear a mask, she clearly wants to improve and has little trouble adding to conversations or even holding them if the subject interests her.
129	* You can do this to colonists with addictions in ''VideoGame/RimWorld'', by [[LiteralDisarming removing both their legs]] (by installing and removing peg legs) so they physically can't get to the drug stash (and replacing the legs with prostheses once they are no longer addicted). You can also just arrest them and lock them up until they get through withdrawal but that has the risk of them violently resisting arrest, or breaking out and heading back to the drug stash. If you want to avoid blatant VideoGameCrueltyPotential you can simply burn all the drugs, but some are valuable trade goods, or useful in certain circumstances.
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133	* Henry declines any alcohol for the first half of ''VisualNovel/DoubleHomework'', as his doctor told him to avoid it from then on to avoid getting cirrhosis of the liver.
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137	* One episode of ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' has Nutty land in the hospital when he consumes a literal truckload of candy. Sniffles decides to get Nutty to kick his sugar addiction by locking him in a padded cell for an indefinite amount of time.
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141	* Tanked gets Nailed To The Wagon in ''Webcomic/BearNuts'' chapter 29: "Tanked Goes Dry", when one of Evil's pranks causes the zoo to lose its liquor license, cutting off Tanked's supply. None of the other bears are particularly happy about this since Tanked starts throwing tantrums all over the place. The following chapter (":[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Origin Of Tanked]]") reveals that, thanks to a particular childhood experience, going sober might be legitimately bad for Tanked.
142	* This happens to Liriel, aka "Blueberry" in ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'', notable for her being a teenager by drow standards (but chronologically in her thirties). She's forced sober because Ariel takes her (she's Ariel's slave) to the overworld to look for a friend and her alcohol stash is destroyed in an attack. She grows increasingly loopy as time goes on and at one point attempts to ''eat'' some grass, taking [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=5249 Kyo'nne's earlier reference to there being "herbs" on the surface that can get you high]] a bit too literally. Liriel's reason for alcoholism? [[spoiler:She was trying to suppress the pain of Diva'ratrika's [[DemonicPossession Aura Possession]], and being forced off the wagon finally lets Diva break through fully.]]
143	* Phillip from ''Webcomic/{{Goats}}'' during the whole multiverse arc. He's kept prisoner in a "dry dimension" where there's no beer.
144	* [[EruditeStoner Gamzee Makara]] from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' gets nailed to the wagon when he runs out of [[FantasticDrug sopor slime]] to make pies from. The slime is known to have degenerative effects on troll's brains. To say "shit hits the fan" is putting it lightly, considering that [[spoiler:he murders Equius, Nepeta, and attempts to off Terezi.]]
145	* Rumisiel from ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}'' is forced to stay sober while living with Ash and her dad. It's a work in progress for all of them.
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149	* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS20E16PrescriptionHeroine Prescription Heroine]]," Lois becomes addicted to painkillers. Eventually, Brian locks her in a dog carrier until she overcomes her addiction.
150	* In the Halloween episode of ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'', Bloo ties Mac to a bed in order to prevent him from eating any candy, setting off his maniacal SweetTooth.
151	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' episode "Let's Play Trap-Trap", Kaeloo forces Quack Quack to go without [[GRatedDrug yogurt]] for an hour. He then experiences withdrawal symptoms and finally goes insane and tries to cannibalize everyone after [[MeatOVision hallucinating them as yogurt containers.]]
152	* ''WesternAnimation/LifesAZoo'': Happens to the entire cast in "Self Helpless" when all the housemates are forcibly deprived of their addictive vices.
153	* One ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' villain's StartOfDarkness resulted from his legally mandated sobriety.
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157	* [[http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2003-02.html A smoker]] was on a long-distance Coach bus--[[MustHaveNicotine that didn't allow smoking]]. When she just couldn't take it anymore, she got up and exited the bus while it was on the highway, dying in the process.
158	* Very much TruthInTelevision, as any medical professional working in a holiday destination can testify. A nice family vacation in some remote mountain village, and daddy cut off from all his usual secret sources of booze, makes for an exciting trip to your local hospital to treat withdrawal symptoms. Which can be life-threatening, so DontTryThisAtHome.
159	* Also TruthInTelevision for people looking for rentals. In ''many'' places, even outdoor off-property smokers are refused or evicted, so the choice often comes down to quit smoking (or lie about it and hope to never be caught), pay far more for a less controlling roommate, or be homeless. Also extends to alcohol for some roommates/living situations - there are some that will evict people for as much as having a can of beer in their room.
160	* Many visitors to Muslim countries find that getting booze can be quite difficult, expensive, or both, resulting in severe cutbacks to consumption or even total sobriety. The reaction to this varies, but Central Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East are not considered great destinations for boozehounds. Then again, if you can prove you are a Christian and like your wine, North Africa isn't too bad...
161	* An almost-literal version of being nailed to the wheel: when the British Army abolished flogging in 1881, the draconian Field Punishment Number One was substituted. This was in use until after the end of UsefulNotes/WW1 and only abolished in 1923. Used for offences just short of court-martial, including and often imposed for habitual drunkenness, the punishment involved tying the offender by wrists and ankle to a wheel. Whether or not this wheel belonged to a vehicle in motion was at the whim of the officer. The punishment was explicitly referred to as "crucifixion" and was probably the last survival of the mediaeval punishment of "breaking on the wheel". [[note]] The British Army probably did away with it for practical reasons - in the 1920s, it moved from horse-drawn wagons with spoked wheels to motorised transport - with far smaller wheels that lacked spokes and which would have been impossible to tie offenders to.[[/note]]. [[http://spartacus-educational.com/FWWfield.htm An appalled observer of one punishment wrote]]:
162	-->"One fine evening two military policemen appeared with a handcuffed prisoner, and, in full view of the crowd and villagers, tied him to the wheel of a limber, cruciform fashion. The poor devil, a British Tommy, was undergoing Field Punishment Number One, and this public exposure was part of the punishment. There was a dramatic silence as every eye watched the man being fastened to the wheel, and some jeering started. Lashing men to a wheel in public was one of the most disgraceful things in the war."
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