History Main / FantasticDrug

* The third book of the ''Literature/{{Spaceforce}}'' series, ''Oblivion'', centers around a drug of the same name. Oblivion induces a lucid dreaming state in users, allowing them to experience a fantasy scenario of their choice -- innocent or less so. Unfortunately, it can also cause users to return to the dream state without warning and at random days or weeks later, often causing fatal accidents.

* ''Literature/TheShipWho'': ''[=PartnerShip=]'' has several designer drugs, including Blissto and Seductron. The latter, rather than being an aphrodesiac, makes people very stupid and suggestible to the point where a CorruptCorporateExecutive doses an employee who wants a cut of his profits with it and tells him to walk, unsuited, into a room full of [[NamesToRunAwayFromVeryFast Ganglicide vapor]]. Alpha, a ClandestineChemist working at a drug rehab clinic, likes to dose charity patients addicted to Blissto with a variant of that drug that seemingly cures them, only to inform them that they'll die if not regularly dosed, all the better to have minions who value her life highly.

* ''Literature/TheShipWho'': ''[=PartnerShip=]'' has several designer drugs, including Blissto and Seductron.

* Played with in ''FFilm/Transformers2007'' when a police detective accuses Sam of partaking in "mojo", which he assumes is a designer drug. "Mojo" is the name of the family's chihuahua, and the drugs are said dog's painkillers.

* In ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' [=GeneCo=], the company that makes artificial organs and cosmetic surgery, also sells a highly addictive painkiller called Zydrate that is used in its surgeries. It comes in a little glass vial[[note]] A little glass vial?[[/note]] and glows blue. LovableRogue Graverobber sells black market Zydrate that he extracts from the brains of corpses.

* An odd variation with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrenochrome adrenochrome]]. While it is a real chemical compound, created when adrenaline comes into contact with oxygen, a conspiracy theory arose in the late 2010s falsely claiming that it was an incredibly powerful hallucinogen procured by extracting children's adrenal glands.[[note]]While adrenochrome is very mildly hallucinogenic, ingesting it causes mild depressed feelings, making it undesirable as a recreational drug. It's also childishly simple to synthesize, anyway: most of what you would need can be found in an epi pen.[[/note]]

* ''WesternAnimation/Sealab2021'': Stimutacs, from the episode of the same name, are a fictional drug derived from the venom of the fugu invented by Sparks to make an assload of cash. HilarityEnsues.

* ''WebOriginal/LoomingGaia'' [[https://loominggaia.tumblr.com/post/639080335468068864/recreational-drugs-of-looming-gaia-lore-under has its own drugs]]. Most of them have relatively mundane places of origin and effects, but there's also a couple more fantastic ones, such as pyre crystals, which grow in [[OurNymphsAreDifferent pyriad]] corpses and that are made into dust that red elves can swallow to get high, and [[MagicMushroom blue-eye shrooms]], which cause a random magical effect on whoever eats them.

* In ''Literature/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren'', there is "Ambrosia", an oily, black fluid that when poured into a peculiar's eyes, lets out a scorching beam of light, and after fading, temporarily increases the strength of their powers. After wearing off, it leaves the user drained and temporarily blinded, with their powers permanently weakening after enough doses. Chronic users wear masks, [[spoiler:as the hot rays from their eyes melt their skin over time, leaving their faces disfigured]]. Additionally [[spoiler:the drug is made from the [[SoulPoweredEngine second soul]] of peculiars]]

* In ''Literature/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren'', there is "Ambrosia", an oily black fluid that when poured into a peculiar's eyes, lets out a scorching beam of light, and after fading, temporarily increases the strength of their powers. After wearing off, it leaves the user drained and temporarily blinded, with their powers permanently weakening after enough doses. Chronic users wear masks, [[spoiler:as the hot rays from their eyes melt their skin over time, leaving their faces disfigured]]. Later we find out the drug [[spoiler:is made from the [[Soul-PoweredEngine second soul]] of peculiars]]

* ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'':

* Since the only law in the titular city of ''WebOriginal/{{Mortasheen}}'' is "Chaos Reigns", then it should come as no surprise that a few of the game's {{Mon}}s are made for producing these. Aside from [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/daemonut.htm the two]] [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/grimbrosia.htm plant-based ones]], there's also the [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/crepusculent.htm Crepusclent]], which secretes psychotropic worms that induce ludicrously powerful PsychicPowers, but also [[MushroomSamba causes very vivid hallucinations]]. There's also [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/jitter.htm Jitter]], who has tumorous drug-producing glands in its head that make it "a viable alternative to the coffee machine". Unfortunately, due to these glands, they're pretty much all insane.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' has Renuyu, a face cream that makes the user's skin like putty and allows them to shape it in any way they desire but is extremely habit-forming. After actor Matt Hagen was disfigured in a car accident, CorruptCorporateExecutive Roland Daggett offered him Renuyu in place of plastic surgery and took advantage of his addiction to get him to commit crimes for him [[MasterOfDisguise disguised as other people]] which eventually led to him becoming Clayface.

* The ''WesternAnimation/DoubleDragon1993'' animated series gives us RPM, a drug that turns its users into hulking blue monsters with super strength. The Shadow Master was able to make it out of a natural alien substance called Black Fungus.
* An episode of Creator/{{ABC}}'s version of ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' had a tobacco analogue called Nic-Nacs, which could cause people's mouths to freeze up.

* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'' did this trope with an anti-drug episode, "Mind Pollution", where the drug in question (oh-so-creatively called "Bliss") turns its victims into strung-out hollow-eyed zombies. Like "Bravestarr" sample above, [[spoiler:Linka's cousin Boris dies]]. The episode even calls it a "new designer drug".

* The ingredient you get for helping Lil' Smoke in ''VideoGame/HellPie'' is a "pink powder", a drug that is obviously meant to be a stand-in for cocaine.

** Neuropozyne from ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' and ''VideoGame/DeusExMankindDivided'' is a drug that [[{{Cyborg}} augments]] take to prevent rejection syndrome.[[note]]''Not'' the same as organ transplant rejection. While people in RealLife have to take anti-rejection drugs when they have ''organic'' transplants that don't perfectly match their antibody profiles and are thus rejected by their immune systems, augments in the game take Neuropozyne when they have ''cybernetic'' transplants that leave "nerve scars" which eventually interfere with the integrity of the neuroprosthetic junction between body and machine.[[/note]] Neuropozyne is available as prescription only and its distribution is heavily monitored, which has lead to it selling for exorbitant prices on the secondhand market. In ''Mankind Divided'', with the augmented population reduced by the Incident and general [[FantasticRacism anti-aug sentiment]], the already-expensive drug has become even harder to come by, and shortages are an endemic problem among the remaining augmented.
** Also from ''Mankind Divided'', Neon is a recreational drug on the streets of Prague, which is inhaled and causes the user to vividly hallucinate rich colors. Apparently, it does not react well with neuropozyne though, and causes lethal seizures when the two drugs are combined in the same system.

* Subverted in the ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds fan setting ''[[https://www.echoesofthemultiverse.com/viewtopic.php?t=1631 The World Less Magical/The World in the Aftermath]]'', in which thionite is an expensive form of cocaine treated with the setting's GreenRocks -- a procedure that does not actually alter its effects in any way.

* Played with in ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' when a police detective accuses Sam of partaking in "mojo", which he assumes is a designer drug. "Mojo" is the name of the family's chihuahua, and the drugs are said dog's painkillers.