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"Don't do drugs" is a stock aesop that has been sledgehammered into children's television shows at the request of the United States government. It usually results in anvilicious moralizing and very special episodes; though it can also be done well, with perspective and sincerity, particularly by artists who have firsthand experience with the downside of the drug scene. Although drugs, both legal and illegal, can have devastating effects on the lives of their users (and have resulted in the untimely deaths of countless people), Drugs Are Bad shows and commercials often exaggerate how bad they actually are, very commonly becoming a Clueless Aesop with all the Narm associated with it. Often, even the villains of shows, when presented with an opportunity to sell drugs for profit, will decline on the grounds that Even Evil Has Standards. Alternatively, drugs make people feel wonderful the first time they take them, but every subsequent time the same drug (or a harder one) makes them feel worse than Hell. But it's too late because they're already "hooked" after the first time, and according to the gateway drug theory, if you give a teen a marijuana cigarette, he'll inevitably wind up doing something harder. The theory has no proper scientific basis whatsoever (some people do, some people don't, and there's been tests done on animals, but it'd be pretty unethical to hand out pot to kids and see how many move on to crack), but science would just get in the way of some scare tactics. On the other hand, many anti-drug advocates would argue that compared to all the rest of the ugly, violent history of the War on Drugs, simply advising kids to steer clear of them should be the most obvious, straightforward, and least controversial course of action possible. Although hyperbole can easily sabotage the intended message. A common way to express this trope is via the character arc Descent into Addiction, which depicts a character's gradual slide into addictive behavior. Note that the full name of the trope should be "Recreational Drugs Are Bad", which is not to say that prescription drugs can't be dangerous when abused (see Valley of the Dolls). If you or the characters take the title at face value, you've got a case of Mistaken for Junkie. It's hard to disagree that there was a considerable element of hypocrisy in Hollywood producing so many works with this message, considering how widespread drug use has always been in the entertainment industry. While the recent pendulum swing in the opposite direction may mean the industry is now admitting its own issues more honestly, that still may not constitute being objective about the matter (however one wishes to define objectivity). Any story about Prohibition Era gangsters is likely to walk an odd tightrope, since Prohibition was rescinded and society no longer condemns alcohol the way it does other drugs, but gangsters murdering people to make a buck off the stuff are still likely to be portrayed very negatively (though, like pirates, they're also likely to be highly romanticized). See also The Aggressive Drug Dealer, that monster from the '80s and '90s who finds middle-class suburbanite kids wherever they are and forces them to take his drugs. Contrast Functional Addict, where the negative effects of drugs are not portrayed as intensely. See also Addled Addict and Drunk Driver. See also Recovered Addict, who often delivers this Aesop, Smoking Is Not Cool, where the moral is specifically about the downsides of tobacco, and the Anti-Alcohol Aesop, which is about the dangers of drinking alcohol specifically. A song with this message is an Ode to Sobriety. For the opposite of this trope, when drugs and drug use are portrayed positively, see Drugs Are Good or Higher Understanding Through Drugs. Compare and contrast to Anvilicious. Please don't use real-life examples. This page is not about whether drugs are actually bad; it is about how said badness is depicted in the media. |
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It is possible to gain this impression from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Duke and Gonzo smoke snort and swallow everything that they can get their hands on, but they don't have much fun. Duke's hallucinations are frightening and disorienting and Gonzo keeps on lashing out with knives, but do they learn A Lesson? No, they carry on regardless. | |
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In Worm, Weaver deconstructs this trope when talking to middle-schoolers, explaining that drugs don't instantly ruin people's lives like they say, and that Lies to Children claiming they do just discredit people talking about the progressive harm they do. She then segues from this into an explanation of why being a supervillain sucks in much the same way. | |
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British Sea Power: One might guess that the frenetic “K Hole� isn’t entirely in favour of recreational ketamine use. | |
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The entire point of Metallica's Master of Puppets is that drugs turn you into a slave and both rule and ruin your life. The majority of the song is from the P.O.V. of the drug itself as it taunts and mocks you, making it very clear who's in charge. | |
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In Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), Anti-Mobius has lots and lots of Anarchy Beryl. The power it gives you is even stronger and longer lasting than Chaos Emeralds but results in a massive burn-out. It has been stated that "What Chaos Emeralds are to a good Caffeine buzz, Anarchy Beryl is to a Cocaine trip". Oh, and did we add that Scourge uses it to power up? | |
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This is one of the main points of A Scanner Darkly. The newest drug on the market gives a great high but can cause hallucinations and dissociative personality disorder. The novel is told from the point of view of an undercover narc. Throughout the book, he uses the drug to maintain his cover, watches several of his friends suffer mental breakdowns, begins to lose his sense of identity, ends up shipped off to an evil rehab clinic which actually manufactures the drug, and is then revealed to have been sent there by his own superiors. Everything about his breakdown was engineered, and he was basically a sacrificial lamb for the government. Because Drugs Are Bad. | |
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In Parking (1985), Orpheus gets into a violent argument with Eurydice when he discovers she's been using again, and she later dies of an overdose. | |
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Reefer Madness, which says that people who use marijuana may become "hopelessly and incurably insane," is the most famous of several "social menace" movies made in the mid-1930s to sensationally portray marijuana as a menace to society. A good example of this occurs during a scene where a bunch of people are sitting around smoking and laughing. This quickly degrades to a man mercilessly beating another person to the floor while everyone else laughs. The implication being that smoking marijuana will make you compelled to violently assault your friends. | |
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Requiem for a Dream is Drugs Are Bad: The Movie! | |
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JonTron later does the same, and goes on to parody Michael Jordan's PSA in the end. | |
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Parodied in The Non-Adventures of Wonderella: Wonderella discourages marijuana use cause that will just lead your dealer to push harder drugs on you to make a better profit... but beer and cigarettes are legal, so they're A-OK! (Also, marijuana is illegal because it leads to harder drugs because of the dealers, and you have to go to a dealer because it's illegal.) | |
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All the bad guys in RoboCop (1987) deal in and snort cocaine. | |
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Jack Ryan: Invoked in Debt of Honor, in which drugs are involved in the coverup of Kimberly Norton's murder. In Patriot Games, Jack is noted to have an aversion to use of painkillers due to an earlier incident where a sympathetic nurse gave him a heavier dose of morphine that resulted in an addiction problem. There's also Without Remorse, in which the drug dealers are portrayed as possibly the most disgusting individuals in the entire series, beating Stalinist Machiavellians, sadistic Vietcong, fascist ChiComs and Islamist terrorists who tried to start World War III. Every single one of them gets what's coming to him. |
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Parodied in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle with the "Marijuana Kills" commercial. | |
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Ship Breaker: Many people are addicted to Red Rippers, a drug that's normally used for animals. Nailer's father Richard is the worst example, being an utterly crazed addict. | |
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Cocaine Bear: The film makes a point of this, starting by quoting Wikipedia on the non-violent nature of bears, before showing the titular bear attack a pair of European hikers. From there, it makes it clear that the predator's violent behavior is driven purely by coke, even showing anti-drug PSAs of the eighties to make its point. | |
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Subverted in The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comics, where Fat Freddy tries to present an anti-drug message — but the problem is, he is so high on amphetamine sulphate that he can't get the words right... This is also quoting the Canned Heat song Amphetamine Annie, where the repeated chorus line is simply 'Speed kills! | |
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Captain Lou Albano had a pretty infamous one where he explicitly stated (on for a TV station's kids block in Philadelphia) that "if you do drugs, you go to Hell before you die"; Not helping the fact is that he appeared in the commercial in his costume from The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!. | |
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In a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles PSA, the turtles' anti-drugs message is undermined by Michelangelo's anti-munchies advice: "Get a pizza!". It also contains a hilariously Lame Comeback to an insult: "I'm not a chicken; you're a turkey!" Calling someone a "chicken" is technically a bad insult already. |
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Another heavy metal example is ironically enough from Ozzy Osbourne. The song "Suicide Solution" is about alcohol abuse and how it will slowly and painfully end up killing you. The song was written after AC/DC's original singer Bon Scott died at 33 from alcohol poisoning. | |
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In Sweet Valley High "On The Edge" (#40) a heartbroken Regina Morrow goes to a party, tries cocaine for the first time, and dies soon after. | |
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The Spine of the World is a less heroic novel by R. A. Salvatore, featuring the former-ish hero Wulfgar after he has been broken by torment and fallen into disgrace. This involves alcohol. Drizzt Do'Urden doesn't appear in this novel, but there are monologues by him at the start of each part anyway, and the one appearing before Wulfgar's drinking problem is described broadens the topic into a general Drugs Are Bad. Even the drow don't use them, apparently, because they need to stay alert for when their allies stab them in the back—which in fact contradicts an event from an earlier Drizzt book, where a graduation ceremony involved a drug-fueled orgy. Of course, Drizzt being Drizzt, he gives a fairly well-reasoned and intelligent argument against drugs from the standpoint of his Incorruptible Pure Pureness. He does describe all drugs as having a sedative effect (like alcohol), while the opposite is true for some of them. | |
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What the Fuck Is Wrong with You?: Nash Bozard looks at this from a practicality standpoint. While it may not be a good idea, it's not hard to understand why people do drugs; they want to experience the effect the drug has on them, be it chilling out, euphoria, etc. Once you get to something like bath salts, this justification rapidly evaporates in a cloud of naked crazy and there's no good reason for doing it; you don't feel good by any definition, and you'll probably go on a rampage trying to get away from the people around you who have turned into demons or the lightning chasing you down the highway. | |
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The villain of RoboCop 2 is behind a new street drug called "Nuke". | |
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Drugs are painted in a negative light in Furry Fight Chronicles because of the consequences they provide to the users. Cookie forces Muko to throw away her painkillers in Chapter 7 because she doesn't want Muko to get addicted to them. Chapter 18 reveals that her best Combagal had a painkiller addiction that Cookie ignored, leading to her retirement. |
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Judy (2019): Substance abuse is part of what ruins a young Judy Garland's life, and she has trouble maintaining performance quality in adulthood because of them. | |
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In Patriot Games, Jack is noted to have an aversion to use of painkillers due to an earlier incident where a sympathetic nurse gave him a heavier dose of morphine that resulted in an addiction problem. | |
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On the Discworld, Sergeant Detritus of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch would like to remind you all of this. Especially all his fellow trolls out there, as some troll drugs have a tendency to make the heads of their users literally explode. But rather than attacking the kids who take it, he's more into getting the dealers... He also nailed a dealer (selling to troll kids) to a wall. By his ears. |
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Killer Nun: Sister Gertrude, fearing that her health may be in decline following the removal of a brain tumor, begins stealing painkillers from the hospital where she works and soon becomes addicted, which does wonders for her mental state. | |
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There's also Without Remorse, in which the drug dealers are portrayed as possibly the most disgusting individuals in the entire series, beating Stalinist Machiavellians, sadistic Vietcong, fascist ChiComs and Islamist terrorists who tried to start World War III. Every single one of them gets what's coming to him. | |
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Zig-zagged for all its worth in the Shadow of the Bat Very Special Story Arc "Leaves of Grass". Yes, it comes with the prerequisite speech from Tim Drake about how smoking marijuana is bad and features one of Tim's friends trying the stuff for the first time, but the main villain, Jason Woodrue, is far from The Aggressive Drug Dealer archetype. Notably, he actually wants to bring about world peace by getting everyone stoned, and it's noted several times that his particular strain of marijuana, sold at dirt-cheap prices, is already squeezing out the "in it for the money" drug dealers. Oh, and the story does go into detail about the history of the hemp plant and its many non-dope-related uses, including making rope and cloth - George Washington is noted to be one of its earliest American growers. | |
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Ai Yori Aoshi Koi: It's implied in chapter 8 that Kaoru's grandfather was abusive at least partially because his aunt Suzuno secretly fed him mind-altering drugs and poisoned him with morning glory seeds. | |
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Latawnya, the Naughty Horse, Learns to Say "No" to Drugs. The only children's book to feature a dead horse that OD'd from marijuana. A non-anthropomorphic horse. And other non-anthro horses smoking weed and drinking beer. As you'd expect, the possibility that the horses might have a reason to enjoy the drugs is ignored, and they are treated only as poison, as the following precious dialog shows: "I feel sick to my stomach. I feel very ill." "I heard some other horses talking about doing drugs and getting high. [...] I think they got their words mixed up. They should call it getting low." It gets better: The book illustrates the non-anthro horses as "holding" the drugs (including alcohol) in their hooves. |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness: The supplement Turtles Go Hollywood (1990) has an impassioned plea on the copyright page telling kids not to do drugs that fits its end-of-the-80s time period perfectly. | |
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There are several times in A Cruel God Reigns where Ian flips out on Jeremy either because he thinks he has been buying/taking drugs or Jeremy actually has been taking drugs, though in both cases Ian reacts perhaps a little too extremely. | |
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Hurog: In Dragon Bones, the protagonist's mother is The Ophelia, and her mental absence is at least in part caused by herbal drugs. They might have some medical value, but she clearly and obviously overdoes it, using them to flee the horrible reality she lives in. After her abusive husband, the most obvious cause of her wish to escape reality, dies, she is not able to stop her drug abuse. She dies eventually, but her soul does so before her body. At one point, Ward notices that he can't find her with his magical ability, even though her body is there. | |
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In The Godfather Don Vito Corleone initially turns down a narcotics dealer who wants his support. His stated reason is that his friends in politics would withdraw their assistance if he were to get in the drug business, though it's implied he finds the idea distasteful too. His refusal kind of starts a war. The Even Evil Has Standards version is a key theme of The Godfather. At least enough so to keep them from selling them to white people. | |
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Not actually a major theme of it, but Decision of Fate has this. | |
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This just might be the moral of the movie Drugstore Cowboy. The original book, on the other hand, takes a more neutral position. | |
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James Bond allies himself with criminal organisations to defeat the Big Bad in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy, and on each occasion it's stressed that while they're smugglers they have nothing to do with drugs. Unfortunately in OHMSS the organisation is the Unione Corse, who ran The French Connection to smuggle heroin into the United States. | |
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In Turning Red, Ming holds this view. | |
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Wolverine has this trope applied to him a few times: There was an entire Wolverine comic arc featuring Psycho Serum cocaine which, after a while, turned into a horrific monster from the dawn of humanity. "That's right, kids, take crack and you may well turn into a horrific blobby goo abomination." For years, Wolverine was depicted with a big smelly cigar in his mouth, explicitly pointing out that his Healing Factor makes him immune to its bad health effects. When Logan lost his powers briefly in the 2000s, he tried smoking as a normal human and suddenly realized it was disgusting. Even after getting his powers back, he hasn't smoked since. |
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During the International Wrestling Association's invasion of WWC, IWA co-owner Savio Vega taunted WWC Heir Carlito Caribbean Cool with a medicine bottle, saying he'd always see Carlito as a tecato for refusing rehab in WWE, in a bid to get WWC to return to favor and invade the IWA shows, boosting interest in the IWA Summer Attitude show. | |
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Thinking Too Much to Think Positively: Parodied in "This is Your Brain on Estradiol"; a woman named Beatrice does an anti-drug PSA, attempting to cite her history with drugs in an attempt to Scare 'Em Straight, but she actually hasn't experienced any negative consequences at all, and she's forced to awkwardly guess that she might have "used up all the good luck" about it before the whole thing is shut down. | |
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An addiction to drugs was the cause of Gilbert's death in Kaze to Ki no Uta, along with forgetting to Look Both Ways. | |
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Revenge Films: Mubio's wife got arrested for possession and consumption of illegal drugs. However, it turns out it was her college friend who got her hooked on drugs and took advantage of her knowledge on economics to invest in foreign exchange to feed their addiction. | |
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In The New Guardians #2, Snowflame, a supervillain powered by Cocaine, proving not only that Drugs are Bad but sometimes they give you superpowers! (Ironically, Snowflame's sheer hammy insanity ended up being a huge hit when Linkara dug the comic out for a review, and he became known as basically the best thing to come out of that series. He even got his own webcomic!) | |
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In La Horse, upon discovering that his grandson Henri consumes drug and is involved in drug trafficking, the old French landowner Auguste Maroilleur (Jean Gabin) whips him with a small branch out of anger, berates him for abandoning his literature studies for such things and throws the heroin in a barrel of water. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic: In his review of the top eleven drug PSAs, Nostalgia Critic both parodies this and plays this straight. At the beginning, he does calmly say that children shouldn't do drugs, since they can hurt you, get you in trouble, and damage your brain, and wonders why PSAs can't simply do that, rather than put on ads that are utterly stupid and ridiculous. JonTron later does the same, and goes on to parody Michael Jordan's PSA in the end. |
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An issue of The Desert Peach had Cloud Cuckoo Lander Dobermann's pills end up in Oberst Pfirisch Rommel's tea, causing the normally Camp Gay Pfirsich to become a psychotic berserker. | |
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In Scanners II: The New Order, the new version of Ephemerol inevitably causes mental and physical deterioration while also being very addictive. Those psychics who take it inevitably turn into dying drug addicts in less than a year. | |
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The infamous Snowbirds Don't Fly two-parter Very Special Episode of Green Arrow/ Green Lantern had Green Arrow's sidekick Speedy (Roy Harper) addicted to heroin. Green Arrow throws him out and is generally a total judgmental dick, but somehow it's still the Evil Drug Dealer that's the villain of the story. Green Arrow was, and has been since, treated as being in the wrong for throwing Speedy out instead of helping. | |
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A PSA made for the movie Gremlins showed the dangers of alcohol abuse. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Pretty much anything that appears in The Book of Vile Darkness (which includes rules for torture, execution, and rules that make "Sadistic" a trait that a character can benefit from) is depicted as evil even by the usual standards of the game, and not recommended for player characters. Rules for and examples of magical addictive drugs (along with rules for how addiction to them is handled) are included in this book. | |
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In the Black Lagoon manga, Leigharch is implied to have gone irreversibly insane after snorting too much coke in the manga. In the anime, his drug of choice is marijuana rather than cocaine. | |
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CM Punk's whole heel gimmick is pretty much telling everybody Drugs Are Bad over and over and over again, and wagging an accusatory finger towards the audience. Of course, in his mind, anything stronger than caffeine is worthy of scorn. | |
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In Cells at Work! CODE BLACK, the host body has been abusing nicotine and alcohol for a pretty long time, and the cells are overworked at trying to keep the system chugging on all the while being negatively affected by their host body's terrible habits (which also include an unhealthy diet and a lack of exercise). It all culminates in the body undergoing a near fatal heart attack that is essentially The End of the World as We Know It for the cells. Thankfully, doctors are able to resuscitate the body and clear out the clogged artery that caused the heart attack, plus this serves as a wake-up call to the host to start taking better care of himself. | |
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Die Hard made sure that annoying loser Harry Ellis used cocaine. This was probably done in equal parts to show how pathetically depressed he was, though. It gets taken a step further when he snorts cocaine right before trying to negotiate with the bad guys, which not only gets him killed, but because he gives them John's name, the local news crew uses the info to track down John's kids and figure out that one of the hostages is John's wife, nearly getting them killed. | |
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Parodied in Walk Hard: Dewey will frequently walk in on his drummer Sam engaging in some illicit narcotic accompanied by a crowd of beautiful young women. Sam will urgently tell Dewey that "you don't want no part in this!", but will then with the same urgent tone list all the great things about that particular drug. Dewey inevitably ends up hooked on it. For example, when Dewey notices friends smoking reefer: | |
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In Sword Art Online Abridged, the game's tutorial NPC spouts this message along with other nuggets of "wisdom." | |
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Indio Solari has "Chau Mohicano", from Pajaritos, Bravos Muchachitos, about a guy who decides to quit the consumption of drugs, with the song detailing the process, the consequences and the side effects of the decision. | |
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MANY Tandy Computer Whiz Kids comics contained anti-drug messages. | |
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In Pulp Fiction, heroin proves to be the undoing of John Travolta's character, who's so strung out all the time that he's totally incompetent as a hitman. Mia also OD's on his heroin, which she thinks is cocaine, while under his guard and nearly dies. | |
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The whole of the Berlin album is an account of a couple falling apart due to dependency on legal and illegal drugs, culminating in the woman's suicide. This laugh-fest has gems like "Caroline Says II": | |
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Billie Eilish's "xanny" is about going to a party of teenage friends and deciding not to take drugs there. Interestingly for this kind of aesop, she doesn't so much condemn drugs directly as much as find herself alienated and worried from watching her friends get intoxicated, and that alone tells her she doesn't need to experience it for herself. | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny there's the drug used to make Naturals able to fight on par with Coordinators, with the result of getting mentally unstable, psychotic pilots, who need a new injection every few hours. Anyone ever seen using the drug dies a more horrible death than anyone else (except for Stella, who dies in Shinn's arms). | |
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In Doctor Dog, the teenage boy smokes and then gets a cough and is taught smoking is bad. The grandfather also gets drunk. The only symptom of said drunkenness is gas, but that's treated as bad anyway. | |
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A major theme of Savatage's Streets: A Rock Opera. The main character, DT Jesus, is a drug dealer turned rock star turned junkie. The Rock Opera begins with him wandering the streets in a drug-induced haze before a similarly-fallen mentor makes him realize he needs to clean up his act. Disaster strikes during his come-back show and a friend is killed because of him. The rest of the story is DT trying to make sense of his life and the world, with the numbing "comfort" of drugs being a constant temptation. | |
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George Michael's song "Monkey" from the Faith album is about drug abuse, according to George's official website. | |
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Comes up twice in Alien in a Small Town. The crisis that led to Indira's nervous breakdown happened when she was very drunk, and Amos kills Jawaharlal while tripping on a hallucinogen. | |
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In Bachelor Party, the Sexual Mule ends up doing drugs at the party and then keels over and dies. The party hosts deposit the mule's dead body into an elevator car, where it is discovered by the hotel's manager as well as Rick's fiancee and her friends. | |
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The Rolling Stones' "Mother's Little Helper", which is about a housewife abusing prescription drugs (presumably meprobamate (Miltown) or diazepam (Valium)) to deal with her everyday life, eventually leading to a fatal overdose. | |
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RoboCop: All the bad guys in RoboCop (1987) deal in and snort cocaine. The villain of RoboCop 2 is behind a new street drug called "Nuke". |
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Parodied in Red vs. Blue when Simmons tells the other members of Red team that he and Grif were drugged. Donut immediately assumes that they were intentionally abusing drugs and proceeds on a long tirade about how drugs are bad, much to Simmons' annoyance. Simmons even comes right out and says that the only thing Donut is accomplishing by going on the anti-drug tirade is making him want to take drugs out of spite. | |
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Banshee Chapter: Taking psychoactive drugs will result in being possessed by an Eldritch Abomination. | |
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In the Heat Guy J Yaoi fanfic In a Different Light, both Daisuke and Clair have problems in their lives caused by drugs. Daisuke got hooked on a Fantastic Drug known as "Black Tab" note It is likely scopolamine, or some derivative thereof, perhaps mixed with some other things. at the age of 13, and ended up becoming a victim of sex trafficking as a result. Meanwhile, Clair turned to drugs as a way of coping with the pain of being abused (and also trafficked) by his father, and has, on more than one occasion, nearly died from them. And while they aren't the reason for his (Canon) mental health issues, they sure aren't helping him in any way here. | |
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Subverted in The Wind Singer. Mumpo becomes somewhat addicted to chewing on some leaves used by one of the tribes the group has passed. When they awaken the beautiful, blond and evil Zars, they're so afraid and hungry that they can't concentrate on their task. Mumpo then shares the leaves with the others, and it eases their feelings, leaving them so high and giggly that they're halfway back before they know it. That'll be coca. It's the plant cocaine is made from, but was part of traditional native cultures in the area. From what I've heard, the plant contains very low levels of the active ingredient and isn't really any worse for people than coffee. Dose matters. |
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James Leo Herlihy's The Season of the Witch has both Drugs Are Good (the protagonist and her friends, taking marijuana, hash, and LSD) and Drugs Are Bad (the beautiful, doomed Archie Fiesta, taking meth, heroin, and God knows what). | |
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Even One Piece shows the evil of drugs. The Fantastic Drug, Energy Steroids that the New Fishman pirates used to get themselves strength boosts comes back to bite them in the butt when it causes them to age into old, frail men. | |
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One of the very first examples of this was "Kicks", a song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil that became a major hit for Paul Revere and the Raiders in 1966. The chorus: | |
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Ice Cream Man has done several issues that show how drugs can damage and destroy people's lives, with even the Big Bad noting that he's never understood the appeal of such things. (Though he'll still happily use drugs to spread suffering and misery when it suits him.) | |
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The Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie song "A Message from the Lord" contains the line: "Don't do drugs, stay in school!" | |
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Holyland examples: Kato, the delinquent expelled from Sawakoh, is explicitly shown to be a junkie, and is one of the viler characters in the show, introducing himself by having Shin beaten within an inch of his life because, in his own words when asked about it, he was out of drugs at the moment. The final story arc is pushed by King introducing the new and extremely addictive drug True to the area, causing enormous damage by not only getting people addicted (including a few friends of the protagonist) but also trying to take over the local gangs and causing enough of a mess that the Yakuza threatens to get involved. That said, King and his gang find Kato too insane to let him join. |
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Enforced in The Comeback Path Of Princess From Mars. The terran emperor doesn't usually interfere with aristocratic politics, unless his own interests are directly threatened, but when he learns of the use of illegal drugs, he responds with extreme prejudice, emphasis on extreme, on the offender's house. In the first arc, all Olga has to do to avenge herself is agree to a duel with her abusive "boyfriend" Mofu Torrus Jr. to whom she was sold into an Arranged Marriage at the age of 8. He does the rest when he starts to lose said duel, in spite of his overwhelming advantage, and openly cheats by using an illegal performing enhancement drug. The very instance this comes to light, Mofu Torrus Sr., who loved to berate Olga's father as a "loser" for becoming a cowardly boot-licker to avoid imperial wrath learns what it means on the receiving end as the emperor is driving him into a penniless commoner, at sword point! | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind has Giorno Giovanna join the mafia in part so he and the others in his Ragtag Bunch of Misfits can shut down the mafia's drug empire from the inside. | |
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The X-Men comics have "mutant growth hormone," essentially mutant steroids that can boost your powers at the expense of driving you berserk (which is, obviously, a bad combination). | |
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Preacher's resident happy-go-lucky vampire Cassidy mentions early on a problem with heroin in his past, but it's slowly revealed just how bad his addiction was, in which during he hit his girlfriend and performed oral sex on a drug dealer for a fix. | |
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In Code Geass, there's the drug "Refrain", which helps the user not worry about the bad things. Anyone not using it are against it and willing to go to extremes to get rid of it (such as sinking a freighter carrying trace amounts of it). Of course, that's because it's addictive, and seemingly causes neural degeneration. The one user with a name starts off dropping breakable things all the time, then, after taking a dose, spends the next season and a half in a bed, incapable of moving under her own power, and doesn't speak. It's fairly reminiscent of a stroke victim. And that's not even getting into the fact that its heavily implied to be specifically engineered as a weapon against the Numbers (before all the side effects, it lets the users relieve happier memories, so it's very popular with the conquered citizens). | |
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In New Testament Scripture from The Bible, the Greek word translated as magic and witchcraft is pharmakeia (φα�μακεία), which can also double for drug use. In fact, Revelation 22:15 in the Common English Bible translation reads: "Outside are the dogs, the drug users and spell-casters, those who commit sexual immorality, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who love and practice deception." Peter the Apostle in his first epistle warns believers to "be sober and vigilant, because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking out whomever to devour." (1st Peter 5:8) | |
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In Brave New World, a drug called soma is distributed by the govenment and used by everyone, to keep them too happy and sedated to think or complain about the civilization they live in. | |
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Magic: The Gathering: The original backstory involved a shade of this trope. The Thran's civilization declined due to an addiction to Powerstones, their energy source. The addiction later became a disease, which the doctor Yawgmoth treated by replacing infected parts with mechanical ones. Eventually, they became the Phyrexians, primary antagonists for the entire first half of the game's run, and then recurring villains later. | |
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The infamous Portal 2 fanfic Its My Life has perhaps the strangest use of this trope ever, since the two characters that the author repeatedly uses to preach this aesop, Atlas and P-body (or Altas and P-boy, as she calls them), are lungless, mouthless robots. She never explains how they are ingesting drugs in the first place. | |
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In Alien Nation, the Newcomers' former alien overlords kept them under control by feeding them a blue substance. Sam/George Francisco keeps this a secret from his human buddy-cop partner because he fears what humanity would do to the Newcomers if we ever found out they were a bunch of drug addicts. Near the end of the movie, a rogue Newcomer consumes an entire giant tube full of the concentrated drug and turns into a mutated rampaging monster. | |
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Subverted throughout The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal. The titular characters partake throughout the strip without any negative consequences. | |
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The unlikely Aesop of Marijuana Simpson; Homer realizes that marijuana dependency is holding him and his family back and subsequently burns all of his pot and embraces the Roman Catholic Church. | |
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Coco Kiryu, of hololive, makes jokes about how potentially dangerous her "Asacoco" drugs. In one case, she showed how injecting Asacoco directly into your neck was a bad idea by playing a clip of Matsuri Natsuiro suddenly shouting "penis" repeatedly. An advertisement for "Stimulant-type Asacoco" also ends with the implication that Coco and her cohort Watame Tsunomaki were arrested for peddling Asacoco meth. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog fanfic Prison Island Break features this prominently. For a story that features rapists, murderers, and terrorists, the deciding factor is always drugs and the manner of their use. As early as the first chapter, Silver the Hedgehog is forcibly depowered using drugs, turning him into a victim. And when it's Serial Killer vs Serial Killer, the one you're rooting for is the one who isn't a recurring Heroin addict and prison dealer. While it's clear the author has a grudge against irresponsible drug use, they've Shown Their Work. This is especially obvious in the chapter where Ketamine is used in its capacity as a rape drug. | |
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Spider-Man occasionally deals with this; in fact, it was what ended up doing in The Comics Code, as they would not let Stan Lee publish an anti-drug issue, even though drugs were portrayed in nothing but a negative light and the United States Government had asked Stan to produce the issue, solely because it portrayed drugs at all, leading Marvel to publish the story without Code approval. | |
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And then there's the great Robot Chicken parody of the '90s version. | |
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The second album, Dirt is a genuinely chilling example of this trope, with many of the lyrics being written by singer Layne Staley about his own heroin addiction, which eventually killed him. | |
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Down's second album II: A Bustle In Your Hedgerow has many about lead singer's battle with heroin and opiate addiction, including Learn From This Mistake and Ghosts Along The Mississippi. | |
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The film of Less Than Zero was essentially one giant 'Just Say No' PSA. Kinda ironic, considering that Bret Easton Ellis has said he wrote the original novel during an eight-week crystal meth binge. | |
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Nicholas Meyer covered this territory in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, an alternate retelling of "The Final Problem". In Meyer's story, Holmes was deep in the throes of addiction, increasingly paranoid that Moriarty would destroy him (turns out Moriarty was his old maths professor in university and not a criminal mastermind), and Watson pulled something of a Batman Gambit by leading a trail of fake clues for Holmes to follow that would lead to Vienna. There Watson managed to arrange for Holmes to meet Sigmund Freud, who was able to treat Holmes for his drug dependency. The choice of Sigmund Freud specifically is probably the oddest part; Sigmund Freud not only used cocaine himself but prescribed it to all his patients. | |
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Invoked in Debt of Honor, in which drugs are involved in the coverup of Kimberly Norton's murder. | |
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Parodied when MTV showed SpongeBob SquarePants: "This is your brain. This is your brain on SpongeBob!" | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Recreational drugs are almost entirely the domain of Slaanesh, the Chaos god of hedonism and excess, so indulging in them is less the domain of law enforcement and more the Inquisition. Combat drugs, on the other hand, are used in industrial quantities by gladiators, penal legions and the Dark Eldar. | |
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Cloak and Dagger (Marvel Comics): Cloak and Dagger got their powers after being forcibly used as guinea pigs by drug dealers to test a new type of heroin. This was not a benefit to them. Cloak has one of the worst cases of Blessed with Suck in the Marvel Universe. And they were the lucky ones; most of the other test subjects didn't survive. (As you might guess, most of the duo's enemies are drug dealers.) | |
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Pretty much how it's depicted in the Left Behind series, the few times it appears. The Middle Eastern former black marketeer Albie sees that his whole hometown of Al Basrah has been given over to drugs in the Tribulation period. During the Millennial Kingdom, The Other Light seduces young people who were below the age of 100 to wild parties where hashish is used to sway them to joining their side against God. In the latter instance, Kenny Bruce Williams comments that the Other Light would end up being too wasted to put up any sort of fight against God at the end of the Millennium. | |
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From Life's Little Instruction Book: | |
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SMPLive: Heavily zig-zagged with Cooper in regards to potions. Cooper is the server cop that installs the rule outlawing potions in the first place, yet when the job is handed off to Joko just a week later, he decides to start a Black Market for them. And then a few weeks later, he freaks out when Travis uses potions in a fight against him, begging Schlatt & Co. to arrest him for this crime. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series has a PSA where Yami Yugi speaks out against drugs. It starts out rather straight (he'd lose respect and his ability to play a Children's Card Game well) but then gets weirder as he advocates selling cards as a better way to get kids addicted (without getting arrested). | |
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In Goodfellas, Henry Hill is warned by his bosses in The Mafia not to get involved in drugs... not so much because they disapprove of it, but because it'll bring the full weight of the federal government crashing down on top of them, which the bosses do not want. True enough, when Henry gets involved in drugs (both dealing and addicted), the feds bust in on the party and the good times are definitely over. | |
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In Ring of Honor, CM Punk came off as correct sometimes, thanks to the existence of Special K, a stable of burnouts who blew their money and college opportunities and so turned to professional wrestling. They respected nothing and aimed to turn as much of the ROH roster as they could into drug addicts, apparently having already gone through Jersey All Pro Wrestling. The group became "Lacey's Angels" following a hostile takeover, Cheech and Cloudy would eventually go on to become babyface Tag Team "Up In Smoke" though. | |
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YouTube personality CgKid has a channel called Shameless Protocol, in which he as a recovering drug addict reaches out to people about his experiences with various types of drugs that he has done, hopefully to help people both steer clear of doing drugs and seek help in case they're caught in an addiction. | |
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The Teen Titans got a couple of Anvilicious one-shots produced as part of the "Just Say No" campaigns, complete with the requisite aggressive drug dealer. | |
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Psionics: The Next Stage in Human Evolution is generally favorable towards drugs, but they occasionally play this straight. Becoming addicted to a drug or overdosing has nasty (and potentially fatal) side effects. Certain drugs unlock psypotential, but they pose a risk of overloading or killing the user. |
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The Funday Pawpet Show: Meet Earl, the Eyeball. | |
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Empath: The Luckiest Smurf: In the story "Smurfnip Madness", Papa Smurf has Tapper head a campaign to show that smurfnip (a Fantastic Drug analog to pot complete with Marijuana Is LSD) is supposedly bad for the other Smurfs. The true Aesop of the story is more treating recreational drug users like criminals is bad, as Hefty and Brainy go around throughout the story as police officers that bust Smurfs for even having a smurfnip joint in their possession. In "The High Cost Of Smurfing", Vanity is seen doing pixie dust (an analog to cocaine) and collapses on the floor in near-death, inspiring Empath to find out who and where Vanity is getting the drug from. There's a brief section at the beginning where Snappy Smurfling eats glowberries (which in The Smurfs (1981) episode "St. Smurf And The Dragon" helps create Papa Smurf's spell of invisibility over the village) which gives him hallucinations but also gives him a sour stomach and "smurfarrhea". Vanity recovers and learns his lesson, but Snappy, being the Smurfling that he is, goes and sniffs the pollen from a dumdum flower, which makes him both high and stupid. In "The New Shop In The Village", Empath has a dream that the entire village has succumbed to the lure of doing all sorts of drugs because he has legalized smurfnip in it as its current leader, which occurred after a new strain of smurfnip that gets Smurfs high but does not produce hallucinations has been developed. The whole village becomes full of Smurfs that look like "the walking dead". |
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In The Pale King, Chris Fogle spends a few pages discussing his drug habits in college, and he's clearly embarrassed in retrospect. | |
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Michel has this reaction in Copernicus Breathing when he finds's Bird's Nest stash of drugs. He doesn't ask what they are, why Bird's Nest has them, or whether or not they were prescription. He just takes them and assumes the worst. Which, in his defense, is probably the correct assumption. | |
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Demon from Justice Machine was addicted to a drug called Edge which he believed would enhance his super-acrobatic skills. | |
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House of the Scorpion looks at the trope, depicting a nation where an entire nation is run by drug lords after deals were made with the U.S. and Mexican governments. The nation keeps illegals out of both countries and doesn't ship drugs to either of them. In return, the two nations leave them alone to ship drugs to other places in the world. The Keepers, corrupt officials that run a work camp, are arrested not because of abuse of the boys, but because of a failed drug test | |
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Go Ask Alice is basically "Drugs Are Bad: The Book". | |
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In City Hunter, Ryo Saeba takes a special interest in cases involving drugs, and tries his hardest to help his clients kick any addictions they may have. This is because, as a Child Soldier in South America, he was forced to take an experimental LSD derivative that gifted him with his preternatural physical capabilities, but was highly addictive and dangerous. His interest is in preventing others from going through the hells of addiction that he had to endure. | |
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Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: In Happy, Happy, Bang, Bang! episode 50, Wilie almost accidientally drinks/sniffs glue after doing homework, but Wolffy stops him from doing so. And yes, drinking or sniffing glue is on the same level of bad as doing drugs. Even the Chinese text on the glue label is very obvious. | |
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In Nomine: This is a view that Fleurity, the Demon Prince of Drugs, has worked very hard and very diligently to spread. In addition to the lure of the forbidden apple effect, his ideal situation is one in which people believe mind-altering substances to be evil and polluting and then use them anyway, thus staining their souls in a way that they wouldn't if no such moral value was present. | |
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American Beauty features a subversion of this principle (though this may depend on your opinion of the characters): Drugs are GOOD. The 3 people who don't smoke pot are a battered wife, a cheating wife and a closeted homosexual wife beater. All the characters that are even marginally sympathetic smoke marijuana. Then again, the main character that takes pot is trying to seduce a young girl and escape responsibility, along with the drug dealer, being a well-meaning, but off-kilterish and stalkerish guy. On the third hand, the main character does NOT sleep with the (not really) wannabe Lolita at the end. | |
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Marvel 2099: Spider-Man 2099 has this as part of his origin story; Miguel O'Hara undergoes a dangerous science experiment to shake a drug addiction given to him by his boss. Yes, kids, endangering yourself by rewriting your DNA is preferable to getting hooked on cocaineRapture! It wasn't that taking drugs was bad, it was that the drug is instantly and permanently addictive at a molecular level, and only available from the corporation. Shaking the addiction was the only way he could leave the hideously unethical company. |
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The Faculty: Inverted. You've got to take the drugs to prove you're not one of them, man. Besides, the cocaine powder really is crushed caffeine pills. Zeke even smokes a joint right after playing football, at the end. | |
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The Bolt Chronicles: In "The Survivor," Mittens's first owner Jack has Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, and his abuse of alcohol and drugs intensifies his worst tendencies. Mary, a beagle who is Bolt's first girlfriend, tries to dry out after being adopted from the pound by a farm family but can't shake her addictions in "The Wind." She's very indiscriminate regarding what she'll ingest to get high. |
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One episode of the English Sailor Moon dub had this line in a Sailor Says segment: | |
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One issue of Gantz featured a rival team whose use of drugs (and listening to music) during a mission was used to show how irresponsible they were. It also featured a hilarious overreaction on the part of the protagonists. "That ain't tobacco! It's grass... weed... ganja!" | |
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Also doing it right is Requiem for a Dream, which at first seems to be a story about the brilliance of drugs a la Altered States. This idea ends badly. | |
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Bad Black: Subverted. One of Black's gang members tries to talk Kenny out of buying drugs... until he finds out that Kenny has plenty of money he's willing to spend. | |
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In Zeroes, Mob's father is a drug dealer, and some of her sections include graphic descriptions of her seeing the progressively worse effect of his products on his addicted customers while growing up. | |
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In a live performance by Robbie Williams, he stopped the show dead in its tracks to deliver the message that "alcohol is good; drugs are bad". | |
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Similarly, Phil's more famous band, Pantera has several, especially on The Great Southern Trendkill, written in the midst of Phil's growing problem. Suicide Note Pt. 1 and Live Through Me (Hell's Wrath) are chilling examples. | |
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Forestdale: One of the core aspects of Jake Noel's backstory tends to evoke an anti-drug message. The kid grew up with an abusive, drug addicted mom who went on to die from an overdose and left Jake an orphan. The fact that he ended up being so well adjusted after being placed into a much more functional and loving home is nothing short of a miracle. | |
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"Better Things to Do" by Judy Pancoast is about how drugs are bad because there are better ways to entertain yourself. | |
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This trope is what drives the plot of The Professional. Not only does Leon take out a drug gang in the film's Cold Open but the antagonists are corrupt DEA agents and cops who killed Mathilda Lando's family after her abusive father didn't return the drugs to them because they were only 90% pure. | |
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ABCs of Death 2: Played for Laughs in "M is for Masticate". The man's cannibalistic rampage started because he snorted bath salts 37 minutes earlier. | |
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AlphaOmegaSin tells kids not to do drugs (and then sarcastically says that sounds convincing) at the end of his video talking about the Nintendo drug in the Netherlands. | |
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"Heroïne" from 4US (Album)'' by Doe Maar is an anti-heroin song, directly inspired by their drummer who was addicted to the stuff. It took him more than 30 years to kick off the habit. As recently as 2014 he released his autobiography detailing his addictions and even mentioning he didn't even get the song was about him at the time. | |
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An early example of this, though more realistic than most, is Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. Holmes's cocaine and morphine habits are initially portrayed as amusing idiosyncrasies, fodder for Watson to moralize and Holmes to blithely dismiss his concerns; but Holmes's drug use soon vanishes, and in one of the later stories Watson refers to "that drug mania which had once threatened to check his remarkable career," and reacts with horror at the sight of Holmes holding a hypodermic needle (though it only contains a strong-smelling liquid for a dog to track). Watson is sent to rescue a man from an Opium Den, presented as a Wretched Hive. To his surprise, Holmes is there in disguise, and reassures Watson that he hasn't added opium to his vices. Nicholas Meyer covered this territory in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, an alternate retelling of "The Final Problem". In Meyer's story, Holmes was deep in the throes of addiction, increasingly paranoid that Moriarty would destroy him (turns out Moriarty was his old maths professor in university and not a criminal mastermind), and Watson pulled something of a Batman Gambit by leading a trail of fake clues for Holmes to follow that would lead to Vienna. There Watson managed to arrange for Holmes to meet Sigmund Freud, who was able to treat Holmes for his drug dependency. The choice of Sigmund Freud specifically is probably the oddest part; Sigmund Freud not only used cocaine himself but prescribed it to all his patients. |
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Alec Peterson of Hello! Sandybell grew up with a drug addict father. On bad days, when the drugs were driving him crazy, he would frequently assault Alec, his mother and his sister. As a result, he has a burning hatred for drugs and those who deal them. | |
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Shows up in the third Ranger's Apprentice book. Will gets addicted to a fictional drug called warmweed to help control him, and his recovery is a slow and hard one. | |
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In "The High Cost Of Smurfing", Vanity is seen doing pixie dust (an analog to cocaine) and collapses on the floor in near-death, inspiring Empath to find out who and where Vanity is getting the drug from. There's a brief section at the beginning where Snappy Smurfling eats glowberries (which in The Smurfs (1981) episode "St. Smurf And The Dragon" helps create Papa Smurf's spell of invisibility over the village) which gives him hallucinations but also gives him a sour stomach and "smurfarrhea". Vanity recovers and learns his lesson, but Snappy, being the Smurfling that he is, goes and sniffs the pollen from a dumdum flower, which makes him both high and stupid. | |
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In Jormungand, this appears in the background of "The Hill of Ruin" arc. Koko, an arms dealer, ruthlessly refuses payment in drugs, but that may be simply related to her rule of not accepting credit. Lutz justifies the group's refusal (in the spectacular fashion of murdering an entire group of would-be drug dealers) by simply stating "We aren't drug dealers." Ugo himself, an ex-mafia member before joining the bodyguard team, is the only one spared in a flashback incident of this when he looks in disgust at his boss paying Koko in drugs by recalling how his brother lost his life to drugs. | |
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In Full Metal Panic!, one of the more focused on aspects of the evil of Amalgam is the fact that they drug the girls they kidnap along with their AS pilots (in order to induce the Ax-Crazy psychological effects necessary). The fact that the organization goes around causing wars and mass destruction doesn't seem to hit Sousuke nearly as hard as the fact that they kidnap and drug girls (causing them to go crazy and become addicted). Then again, death has never been considered very important or horrible in Sousuke's mind... | |
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Strontium Dog had some material along this line, showing the deleterious effects of drugs on the outcast and marginalized British mutants in much the same vein as Trainspotting. Then there's Granny MacNulty, who is very insistent that young Archie stick to whisky. | |
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Played (relatively) straight in the video for "The Last Journey Home" by DragonForce, where Vadim and ZP turn down the offerings of a drug dealer who accosts them in a seedy back alley. Played straight with the song "Give Me the Night", which is told from the perspective of a drug addict. | |
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"Just to Get High" by Nickelback talks about watching someone's downward spiral into drug addiction. | |
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The "Streets of Poison" storyline in Captain America featured Cap busting up a drug cartel, and incidentally falling under the influence of drugs after an explosion causes said drugs to bond to the Super-Soldier Serum, turning the Captain into a violent, berserk druggie. | |
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Parodied in The Goldbergs episode "Muscles Mirsky". | |
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