History Main / LoveIsADrug

* "Addicted To Love" by Robert Palmer is laden with this trope from top to bottom.

* "Kiss From A Rose" by Music/{{Seal}} uses it straightforwardly in several places with abstract lines like "Love remained a drug that's the high not the pill" and "you're like a growing addiction" as well as the uncertain interpretations of his eyes getting large and ''[[{{Metaphorgotten}} what a kiss from a rose actually is]]''.

* "You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me" from ''Film/FortySecondStreet'' makes this OlderThanTheyThink.

** "Death By A Thousand Cuts" says the song's subject "Gave up on [her] like [she] was a bad drug."

* Music/RoxyMusic has "Love Is the Drug", later covered by Music/{{Divinyls}} for the ''Film/SuperMarioBros'' soundtrack, and Creator/CarlaGugino and Creator/OscarIsaac for ''Film/SuckerPunch''.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': One of the verses in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PuWm9t5WY8 Come to Me]]" (composed by Daniel Hart and sung by Sam Reid), Lestat de Lioncourt's VillainLoveSong for Louis de Pointe du Lac, is "I get intoxicated by the very air of you," and it's not an exaggeration to say that Lestat is addicted to Louis.

* A verse from the ''Literature/SongOfSongs'' has the Shulamite saying, "Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for your love is better than wine."

* Music/{{Daughtry}}: "Evil" is about the singer falling for a woman who is a bad influence, calling her the devil at one point, which drags him down to "TheDarkSide of life".

* “Eyes Fade Away” by Music/{{Emigrate}} compares a toxic relationship to an addiction, expressing a desire to “drain you from my veins.”

* "High On You" by Music/{{Survivor}}.

* The similarly named "Your Love's A Drug" by Leighton Meester:

* Music/RoxyMusic has "Love Is the Drug", later covered by Music/{{Divinyls}} for the ''Film/SuperMarioBros'' soundtrack.
* "Bad Medicine" by Music/BonJovi.

* "Baby, Don't Get Hooked On Me" by Mac Davis, as a warning not to get too attached to the singer.

* "Hooked on a Feeling," [[CoveredUp best known]] in the version by Blue Swede.

** "Clean" is an {{inver|tedTrope}}sion, comparing the protagonist's getting over a relationship (or relationships in general for the time being) to coming out of rehab.
** "Death By A Thousand Cuts":
--->Gave up on me like I was a bad drug

* Music/MaryElizabethMcGlynn's "You're Not Here" (from ''VideoGame/{{Silent Hill 3}}'') has a bit of this:

----> ''Darling I forgive you after all, anything better then to be alone''

* "The Buzz" by Music/ThePretenders: "It's a drug, like any other". The song is about a manipulative lover using ''withdrawal'' to control the singer, who realises this but can't do anything about it.

* "The Buzz" by Music/ThePretenders: "It's a drug, like any other".

-->Gave up on me like I was a bad drug

* Music/KellyClarkson's "Addicted". If the title is not enough, than the first line says: "It's like you're a drug".

* I Can't Stay Away by Music/TheVeronicas
* "The Drug In Me Is You" by Music/{{Falling In Reverse}}

* "Clean" by Music/TaylorSwift is an [[InvertedTrope inversion]], comparing the protagonist's getting over a relationship (or relationships in general for the time being) to coming out of rehab.

* "Death By A Thousand Cuts" by Music/TaylorSwift:
-->Gave up on me like I was a bad drug

* Music/CamilaCabello's ''Never Be The Same'' features lines like "got your chemicals all in my veins" and "just like nicotine, heroine, morphine," and "just one hit of you and now I'll never be the same."