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''[[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere Son, where did you learn to describe tropes about drugs?]]''\\
[[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere You, Dad! I learned it by watching YOU!]]

Kids, talk to your parents about tropes.

See also PharmacologyTropes.
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!!Tropes:
[[index]]
[floatboxright:
'''Categories:'''
+ HardDrinkingTropes (alcohol)
+ ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin (pseudo-drugs)
+ PharmacologyTropes (medication)
+ TheSmokingSection (cannabis/tobacco)
+ AWholeLatteTropes (caffeine)
]
* FourTwentyBlazeIt: The number 420 is associated with cannabis.
* AddictionDisplacement: A person ends their addiction simply by becoming addicted to something else.
* AddictionPowered: A person who gains powers by abusing their own drug abuse.
* AddictionSong: A song about drug abuse and addiction.
* AddictiveMagic: Where casting spells (or just having a magic power) gets you high.
* AddledAddict: When an addict (former or current) is clearly struggling in life.
* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: The local drug dealer gets you to try a drug that you can't resist, or else!
* AIGettingHigh: When a robot takes drugs.
* AlcoholicParent: Parent who drinks a lot.
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: A person ends up doing stupid things after being inebriated.
* AlienCatnip: Something that that aliens go crazy for, often stuff that is mundane to us humans.
* AnthropomorphicVice: Addictive substances are personified or anthropomorphized.
* ArtisticStimulation: Using drugs to be creative in the arts.
* BetterThanSex: Anything (including drugs) that makes the horizontal bop seem like a lesser thrill.
* BingeMontage: A montage sequence that shows people getting drunk and/ or high.
* BitsOfMeKeepPassingOut: When limbs refuse to cooperate when you most need them.
* BottledHeroicResolve: A normally heroic Hollywood health pack that often comes with undesired side effects.
* ButLiquorIsQuicker: Getting a person inebriated so that you can have sex with them.
* CaffeineFailure: When not even coffee can keep you awake for a task at hand.
* ChemicallyInducedInsanity: Intentionally inducing a desired effect onto another person (does not have to be madness).
* ChemicalMessiah: A drug or chemical that is worshipped like a god for its properties.
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: When a smoke is needed in a highly stressful situation.
* ClandestineChemist: Someone educated in chemistry decides to use their knowledge for illegal purposes, often the creation of drugs.
* ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere: Seeing the very thing you're trying to give up everywhere around you, no matter how improbable.
* ComfortFood: Where binge-eating lots of food in one sitting is the high of choice.
* CompressedAbstinence: Quitting a vice, though not exclusively drug-related.
* CompressedVice: Someone with a hidden vice or addiction attempts to get rid of it by the episode's end. Again, not exclusively drug-related, but has ''lots'' of examples.
* ConcussionsGetYouHigh: Getting hit on the head will have you act like you're on drugs.
* ContemplatingYourHands: Getting high and questioning your hands, wondering about what their (very obvious) purpose is.
* TheDarkSide: An evil moral stance becomes addictive.
* DemographicallyInappropriateHumour: When a children's joke makes a joke about drugs or something else inappropriate.
* DescentIntoAddiction: A character's journey from normal to an addicted mess.
* DrFeelgood: A doctor who prescribes or provides dangerous drugs in an unethical manner.
* DramaticallyDelayedDrug: A drug doesn't work until it's most dramatic — or inconvenient.
* DruggedLipstick: There's ''really'' something in that kiss that makes you feel like you're under somebody's spell.
* DrugsAreBad: The story's moral is that drugs are very bad for you and should be avoided at all costs.
* DrugsAreGood: The story's moral is that drugs are good for you, and are nothing to be afraid of trying.
* DrugsCausingSlowMotion: The surrounding world "slows down" when someone is on drugs.
* DrunkOnMilk: Getting drunk on a substance that, by all rights, should be impossible to get drunk on.
* DrunkenMaster: Getting hammered makes you good at hammering bad guys...or with a hammer in a workshop.
* DrunkenMontage: A clip montage of people getting drunk.
* DryCrusader: A person who abstains from alcohol and tries to force everyone else to go without alcohol as well.
* EruditeStoner
* EternalProhibition: The prohibition continues on into the future, where very few, if any, drugs are allowed.
* EverybodyMustGetStoned: When a group of people get stoned, often by accident.
* EvilTastesGood: Drugs often get described as tasting of evil by evil characters; ''a lot'' of overlap exists here.
* FakeHigh: A person falls under a placebo effect, usually by being given a non-drug substance in place of a drug.
* FantasticDrug: A fictional drug that appears in a sci-fi or fantasy-based story; also sometimes referred to as a designer drug.
* FingertipDrugAnalysis: An old-timey way of determining what the drug is by an on-site taste test.
* ForcedAddiction: Turning someone into an addict by force or manipulation.
* FrothyMugsOfWater: Beer that has been changed between regional edits to be water or milk.
* FunctionalAddict: Drug addiction does not affect a person's day-to-day activities, such as work.
* GRatedDrug: A harmless consumable substance is depicted as having the same properties as a drug.
* GRatedStoner: A character that acts like a stoner, sans any presence of drugs.
* GargleBlaster: A drug experience so amazing it numbs your mouth.
* GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply: Exactly what it sounds like, a drug dealer partaking in the drugs they don't sell.
* AGlassOfChianti: Evil people drink red wine.
* GoingColdTurkey: Trying to get off the substance you're addicted to.
* GoodFlawsBadFlaws: Giving flaws to a previously flawless character (like a drug addiction).
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Those that smoke are bad, except in instances where that isn't the case.
* GovernmentDrugEnforcement: The man is forcing you to use drugs (often psychoactive ones).
* HeartbreakAndIceCream: Someone being dumped has ice cream to make them feel better.
* HighOnCatnip: Animals getting high.
* HighOnHomicide: Getting high on a specific killing.
* HighTimesFuture: A future (or alternate timeline) where all recreational drugs are legal.
* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: Getting smarter through drugs, or dealing with a foreign fantastical concept with drugs.
* HookersAndBlow: Situations where prostitutes and drugs (or women and wine) go hand in hand.
* ImmuneToDrugs: Somebody who's impervious to the pills and the powder.
* ImpairmentShot: A camera shot to show someone being drugged, drunk, poisoned, injured, etc.
* IntoxicatedSuperpowerSnag: Drugs have very interesting effects on supernatural powers.
* IntoxicationEnsues: Someone gets drunk (or high) accidentally.
* IntoxicationMechanic: The player character in a video game consuming drugs (or alcohol) causes an InterfaceScrew which hinders the player's ability to play the game.
* ItsSnowingCocaine: Cocaine is shown in large (unrealistic) quantities.
* JackUpWithPhlebotinum: Accidentally using what a person thinks is a drug they crave, only for it to go wrong.
* JunkieParent: Parent who does drugs.
* JunkieProphet: A drunk or addict who uses drugs to foresee events.
* KissingUnderTheInfluence: Where passion mixes with inebriation.
* KlatchianCoffee: Coffee so high in caffeine that just one cup is enough to make you very jittery.
* LiquidCourage: Drinking to curb social awkwardness and increase confidence.
* LoveIsADrug: Love is depicted to have addictive qualities similar to drugs.
* MagicMushroom: Fantastical (often magical) drugs with hallucinogenic effects.
* MarijuanaIsLSD: The effects of certain drugs are overblown for the sake of drama or comedy.
* MistakenForJunkie: Someone mistakes a person for an addict.
* MonsterOrganTrafficking: Profiting off of a monster's parts. Sometimes, the parts are or can be transformed into psychedelic substances.
* MrViceGuy: An otherwise benevolent or moral character with a vice or addiction never lets them outweigh their good qualities or sense of right. Not exclusively drug-related, but has ''plenty'' of examples.
* MushroomSamba: Drinking or eating foreign substances and hallucinating.
* MustHaveCaffeine: People addicted to coffee.
* MustHaveNicotine: People addicted to cigarettes.
* NailedToTheWagon: Locking someone away until their addiction expires.
* NoMedicationForMe: Losing a part of yourself when you take medication.
* NoSmoking: A form of censorship that replaces cigarettes with other things (often gum or lollipops).
* OdeToIntoxication: Songs that celebrate getting high or buzzed on something, including drugs.
* OfCourseISmoke: Person who normally doesn't smoke tries to make it appear that they do smoke.
* OffTheWagon: A reformed character returning to their original vice.
* OneDrinkWillKillTheBaby: Pregnant mothers shouldn't drink, lest the alcohol they consume ends up harming the baby.
* OpiumDen
* PhlebotinumPills: These pills give you special powers and/or abilities.
* PlayingDrunk: Sober people making it look like they've done a few drinks.
* PostStressOvereating: Someone overeating in an attempt to reduce stress.
* PowerHigh: Gaining power is treated like being on drugs.
* PsychoSerum: A serum that makes people go insane.
* QuickNip
* RecoveredAddict
* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: The three popular ingredients of a rock star.
* ShagWagon: A custom van that people use as a place to engage in sex and drugs.
* SlippingAMickey: Putting a little something in somebody's drink to get them to fall asleep or be unconscious.
* SmokingIsCool: When smoking makes you look like a badass.
* SmokingIsNotCool: When smoking makes you look like a total ass.
* SmugStraightEdge
* SpikedBlood: Vampires getting drunk or high from something added to somebody's blood.
* TheSponsor
* StagingAnIntervention: When you need to get a drug addict off the stuff that's killing them.
* StimulantSpeedtalk: Stimulants bring about a need to talk, often at high speed, often about nothing.
* TheStoner
* StonerFlick
* StonersAreFunny
* UsefulNotes/StraightEdge
* StraightEdgeEvil
* ToadLicking: Getting high from the secretions of psychoactive toads.
* ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil: When TheDarkSide affects you like a drug in all the worst ways possible.
* ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs
* {{Uncoffee}}: Coffee or tea substitutes in fantasy or science fiction settings.
* UndiscriminatingAddict
* UnsuspectinglySoused: When a person gets drunk on something they think is non-alcoholic, but definitely has alcohol.
* VodkaDrunkenski: Russian characters that are alcoholics.
* WackyFratboyHijinx: The crazy things college students do in fraternities or sororities, which include drugs and alcohol.
* WarmBloodbagsAreEverywhere: A vampire trying to not drink blood of a person despite the temptation.
* WatchItStoned: A movie is believed to be even better when viewed while intoxicated.
* WateringDown: Despite its alcohol-related name, this covers cutting drugs as well.
* WhatDidIDoLastNight: After a night of being drunk or high, a person regains consciousness and panics while trying to remember what happened last night.
* WineIsClassy
* YouCanSeeThatRight: When getting high makes you see things that other people probably cannot.
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