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* ''Series/{{Graceland}}'':
**In the third season, Agent Mike Warren develops a dependency and then full-blown addiction to the pain medication he is prescribed following his [[spoiler:attempted murder last season. Eventually, Mike decides to detox and appears to beat his addiction with the help of his roommates]]..
**In the third season, Agent Mike Warren develops a dependency and then full-blown addiction to the pain medication he is prescribed following his [[spoiler:attempted murder last season. Eventually, Mike decides to detox and appears to beat his addiction with the help of his roommates]]..
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Compare and contrast OffTheWagon, in which a recovered addict relapses (it's possible for a work to be an example of both tropes, if the work opens after the character has made their initial attempt at recovery). In TV series and cartoons aimed at children, this may often be the subject of a VerySpecialEpisode (possibly with a FrothyMugsOfWater-style substitute for a real drug). Often involves a CompressedVice. Typically an example of DrugsAreBad. May lead to the character's friends and family StagingAnIntervention.
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Compare and contrast OffTheWagon, in which a recovered addict relapses (it's possible for a work to be an example of both tropes, if the work opens after the character has made their initial attempt at recovery). In TV series and cartoons aimed at children, this may often be the subject of a VerySpecialEpisode (possibly with a FrothyMugsOfWater-style substitute for a real drug). Often involves a CompressedVice. Typically an example of DrugsAreBad. May lead to the character's friends and family StagingAnIntervention. \n Sometimes, particularly in works made during TheEighties, it starts with TheAggressiveDrugDealer.
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Compare and contrast OffTheWagon, in which a recovered addict relapses (it's possible for a work to be an example of both tropes, if the work opens after the character has made their initial attempt at recovery). In TV series and cartoons aimed at children, this may often be the subject of a VerySpecialEpisode (possibly with a FrothyMugsOfWater-style substitute for a real drug). Often involves a CompressedVice. Typically an example of DrugsAreBad. May lead to the character's friends and family StagingAnIntervention.
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* In ''Film/DaysOfWineAndRoses'', Kirsten goes from staunch teetotaller to complete alcoholism and is unwilling or unable to attempt recovery, which costs her her husband and child. Joe seems to have some issues from the start of the movie, but does manage to dry out.
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* In ''Film/DaysOfWineAndRoses'', Kirsten goes from staunch teetotaller teetotaler to complete alcoholism alcoholic and is unwilling or unable to attempt recovery, which costs her her husband and child. Joe seems to have some issues from the start of the movie, but does manage to dry out.
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* In ''Literature/VenusPrime 4'', Sparta starts taking various pharmaceuticals in an attempt to counteract the drugs that erased part of her memories. Instead, she ends up severely addicted to one of the drugs, and by the end of the book, she's caused such severe damage to her own brain from drug abuse that she loses her enhanced perception abilities.
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* In ''Literature/VenusPrime 4'', Sparta starts taking various pharmaceuticals in an attempt to counteract the drugs that erased part of her memories. Instead, she ends up severely addicted to one of the drugs, and by the end of the book, she's caused such severe so much damage to her own brain from drug abuse that she loses her enhanced perception abilities. abilities.
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* During the course of ''[[Film/{{Scarface1983}} Scarface]]'', Tony and his girlfriend Elvira become addicted to cocaine as he rises up the ranks of the dealers/distributors.
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* During the course of ''[[Film/{{Scarface1983}} Scarface]]'', Tony and his girlfriend Elvira become addicted to cocaine as he rises up the ranks of the dealers/distributors. "Getting high on your own supply" is a big no-no among drug dealers, and is one of several factors that ultimately end up dooming Tony.
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* ''Webcomic/EightCicadas'' starts with a flash-forward to Annette as an alcoholic, though her story proper starts with her as a young social drinker. Shark, her nephew, also descends from sobriety to violence and alcoholism before his death.
* ''Webcomic/EightCicadas'' starts with a flash-forward to Annette as an alcoholic, though her story proper starts with her as a young social drinker. Shark, her nephew, also descends from sobriety to violence and alcoholism before his death.
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* "Slow Down" by Brand Nubian is a WhatTheHellHero directed at the speaker's ex-girlfriend. She started off clean (which isn't to say she didn't have [[FilleFatale other problems]]), then became addicted to gateway drugs either before or during her relationship with him, and finally to crack cocaine. He broke up with her because the addiction had changed her personality and done a number on the way she looked, and she was doing things like stealing money from him and [[HookersAndBlow selling her body to pay for her habit]]. It seems that part of him was hoping that the breakup would be the kick in the pants she needed to get clean, but he can see that she hasn't changed.
* "Slow Down" by Brand Nubian is a WhatTheHellHero directed at the speaker's ex-girlfriend. She started off clean (which isn't to say she didn't have [[FilleFatale other problems]]), then became addicted to gateway drugs either before or during her relationship with him, and finally to crack cocaine. He broke up with her because the addiction had changed her personality and done a number on the way she looked, and she was doing things like stealing money from him and [[HookersAndBlow selling her body to pay for her habit]]. It seems that part of him was hoping that the breakup would be the kick in the pants she needed to get clean, but he can see that she hasn't changed.
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The key aspect of this trope is that at the beginning of the StoryArc, the character is not an addict, and is either only a habitual casual user of the substance/activity in question or abstains entirely. It's not an example if the character is an addict from the outset of the work.
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[[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism Cynical, downbeat works]] will often end with the character having succumbed to her addiction, whereas more optimistic works will depict the character recovering and [[RecoveredAddict overcoming their addiction]] (or at least beginning to).
[[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism Cynical, downbeat works]] will often end with the character having succumbed to her addiction, whereas more optimistic works will depict the character recovering and [[RecoveredAddict overcoming their addiction]] (or at least beginning to).
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The key aspect of this trope is that at the beginning of the work, StoryArc, the character is not an addict, and is either only a habitual user of the substance/activity in question or abstains entirely. It's not an example if the character is an addict from the outset of the work.
[[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism Cynical, downbeat works]] will often end with the character having succumbed toher their addiction, whereas more optimistic works will depict the character recovering and [[RecoveredAddict overcoming their addiction]] (or at least beginning to).
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* ''Literature/AScannerDarkly'' - like the [[Film/AScannerDarkly movie]] adapted from it - depicts under cover undercover cop Bob Arctor growing addicted to the scary fictional drug Substance D [[BecomingTheMask as part of his cover]].
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* ''Literature/AScannerDarkly'' - like the [[Film/AScannerDarkly movie]] adapted from it - depicts under cover cop Bob Arctor growing addicted to the scary fictional drug Substance D [[BecomingTheMask as part of his cover]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "$pringfield", Mr. Burns opens a casino in Springfield and Marge becomes a gambling addict.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "$pringfield", Mr. Burns opens a casino in Springfield and Marge becomes a gambling addict. She [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone acknowledges her problem]] at the end of the episode.
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* Several minor characters in ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'' and its source novel undergo this, most notably Tommy, who is introduced to heroin by Renton after his girlfriend dumps him and ultimately contracts HIV.
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* Several minor characters in ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'' and its source novel undergo this, most notably Tommy, Tommy (as per the page image), who is introduced to heroin by Renton after his girlfriend dumps him and ultimately contracts HIV.
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* A rather infamous example occurs in the ''WesternAnimation/BraveStarr'' episode "The Price", in which a teenage boy named Jay becomes hooked on "spin" and gets progressively more focused on getting more.
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A character arc in a work which depicts a particular character's decline into some form of self-destructive addiction. They may become addicted to a substance (alcohol, illegal drugs etc.) or to a pattern of behaviour (gambling, porn and sex addiction etc.). In SpeculativeFiction works this can include a character becoming addicted to a FantasticDrug or fantastic pattern of behaviour (such as a sorceror becoming addicted to the intoxicating effects of using magic, for example).
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A character arc in a work which depicts a particular character's decline into some form of self-destructive addiction. They may become addicted to a substance (alcohol, illegal drugs etc.) or to a pattern of behaviour (gambling, porn and sex addiction etc.). In SpeculativeFiction works this can include a character becoming addicted to a FantasticDrug or fantastic pattern of behaviour (such as a sorceror becoming addicted to the intoxicating effects of using magic, for example).
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* In ''Film/DaysOfWineAndRoses'', Kirsten goes from staunch teetotaller to complete alcoholism and is unwilling or unable to attempt recovery, which costs her her husband and child. Joe seems to have some issues from the start of the movie, but does manage to dry out.
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* ''ComicBooks/IronMan'': The ''Demon in a Bottle'' story arc from 1979 deals with Tony Stark's slow descent into alcoholism. Although he managed to seemingly beat the addiction by the end of the arc, it returned later to further ruin his life, and has been a major defining element for the character ever since.
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* ''ComicBooks/IronMan'': ''Comicbook/IronMan'': The ''Demon in a Bottle'' story arc from 1979 deals with Tony Stark's slow descent into alcoholism. Although he managed to seemingly beat the addiction by the end of the arc, it returned later to further ruin his life, and has been a major defining element for the character ever since.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "$pringfield" Mr. Burns opens a casino in Springfield and Marge becomes a gambling addict.
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A character arc in a work which depicts a particular character's decline into some form of self-destructive addiction. They may become addicted to a substance (alcohol, illegal drugs etc.) or to a pattern of behaviour (gambling, porn and sex addiction etc.). In SpeculativeFiction works this can include a character becoming addicted to a FantasticDrug or fantastic pattern of behaviour (such as a sorceror becoming addicted to the intoxicating effects of using magic, for example).
The key aspect of this trope is that at the beginning of the work, the character is not an addict, and is either only a habitual user of the substance/activity in question or abstains entirely. It's not an example if the character is an addict from the outset of the work.
Cynical, downbeat works will often end with the character having succumbed to her addiction, whereas more optimistic works will depict the character recovering and [[RecoveredAddict overcoming their addiction]] (or at least beginning to).
Compare and contrast OffTheWagon, in which a recovered addict relapses (it's possible for a work to be an example of both tropes, if the work opens after the character has made their initial attempt at recovery). In TV series and cartoons aimed at children, this may often be the subject of a VerySpecialEpisode (possibly with a FrothyMugsOfWater-style substitute for a real drug). Typically an example of DrugsAreBad. May lead to the character's friends and family StagingAnIntervention.
See also TheAlcoholic, TheGamblingAddict, FunctionalAddict, AddledAddict and TheTeetotaler for related character types.
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* ''ComicBook/GreenArrow''. ''Snowbirds Don't Fly'' is a two episode arc in issues #85 and #86 that showed how Green Arrow's ward Roy "Speedy" Harper had become a heroin addict and the consequences of his actions.
* ''ComicBooks/IronMan'': The ''Demon in a Bottle'' story arc from 1979 deals with Tony Stark's slow descent into alcoholism. Although he managed to seemingly beat the addiction by the end of the arc, it returned later to further ruin his life, and has been a major defining element for the character ever since.
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* The primary plotline in the Wakefield story in ''Film/{{Traffic}}'' centres on Bob Wakefield's daughter Caroline, who develops an addiction to heroin after being introduced to it by her boyfriend. Her parents put her in rehab, but she escapes and resorts to theft and prostitution to fund her habit. At the end of the film she's back in rehab and seems more committed to recovering.
* Several minor characters in ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'' and its source novel undergo this, most notably Tommy, who is introduced to heroin by Renton after his girlfriend dumps him and ultimately contracts HIV.
* ''Film/RequiemForADream'' chronicles three out of four main characters' agonizing descent into drug addiction. Director Creator/DarrenAronofsky stated that he was attempting to explore the parallels between different types of addiction in the film:
-->''Requiem for a Dream'' is not about heroin or about drugs… The Harry-Tyrone-Marion story is a very traditional heroin story. But putting it side by side with the Sara story, we suddenly say, 'Oh, my God, what is a drug?' The idea that the same inner monologue goes through a person's head when they're trying to quit drugs, as with cigarettes, as when they're trying to not eat food so they can lose 20 pounds, was really fascinating to me. I thought it was an idea that we hadn't seen on film and I wanted to bring it up on the screen.''
* During the course of ''[[Film/{{Scarface1983}} Scarface]]'', Tony and his girlfriend Elvira become addicted to cocaine as he rises up the ranks of the dealers/distributors.
* ''Film/TheBasketballDiaries'' (and its source book) depicts Jim Carroll's descent into heroin and cocaine addiction.
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* Dick Diver in ''Literature/TenderIsTheNight'' begins to drink heavily as a coping mechanism due to his wife's mental illness, eventually becoming TheAlcoholic.
* In ''Literature/VenusPrime 4'', Sparta starts taking various pharmaceuticals in an attempt to counteract the drugs that erased part of her memories. Instead, she ends up severely addicted to one of the drugs, and by the end of the book, she's caused such severe damage to her own brain from drug abuse that she loses her enhanced perception abilities.
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* ''Series/BabylonFive'':
** In the second season Dr. Franklin starts using stims to keep himself going as more and more injured refugees arrive from the Narn-Centauri War. As time goes on, he becomes more reliant on them, even after the war ends and by the mid-third season it's clear he's become dependent on them. Once he realizes it, he goes on a "[[JourneyToFindOneself Walkabout]]" to figure things out.
** Michael Garibaldi is shown to have had a problem with [[TheAlcoholic alcohol]] in the past, but aside from one relapse in the first season he doesn't touch the stuff, making a point to just drink water, until the fifth season at which point he starts spending more and more time intoxicated to passed out [[spoiler:which causes him to miss a critical call, and possibly a chance to stop a war before it begins]].
* A VerySpecialEpisode of ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' (which has since become infamous for its copious {{Narm}}) was focused on Jessie becoming addicted to caffeine pills.
* In ''Series/TheMentalist'' Cho gets injured on duty, and his doctor gives him pain medication which he takes as needed. Over the course of several episodes we see him popping pills. Eventually he realizes he's becoming addicted to them, so he [[GoingColdTurkey flushes the remainder of the pills down his toilet]] and [[RecoveredAddict never takes them again]].
* An early story arc in ''Series/BreakingBad'' featured Jesse (already a habitual user of crystal meth and weed) being introduced to heroin by his girlfriend Jane and slowly becoming addicted. After Jane overdoses, Walt sends Jesse to a rehab facility and he remains clean for most of the rest of the series.
*''Series/{{MASH}}'':
** During the fifth season (Frank's last), Margaret's engagement and eventual marriage to Donald Penobscott effective ends her affair with Frank, which drives him over the edge, and as that season progresses, his obsession for her grows and grows to pathological proportions; his attempts to just talk or eat with her usually ends with him breaking down and making a move on her, only for her to push him away and threatening to tell Penobscott.
** In "Dr. Winchester and Mr. Hyde" Major Charles Emerson Winchester starts taking amphetamines to make up for a lack of sleep and quickly becomes addicted to them.
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* A rather infamous example occurs in the ''WesternAnimation/BraveStarr'' episode "The Price", in which a teenage boy named Jay becomes hooked on "spin" and gets progressively more focused on getting more.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "$pringfield" Mr. Burns opens a casino in Springfield and Marge becomes a gambling addict.
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The key aspect of this trope is that at the beginning of the work, the character is not an addict, and is either only a habitual user of the substance/activity in question or abstains entirely. It's not an example if the character is an addict from the outset of the work.
Cynical, downbeat works will often end with the character having succumbed to her addiction, whereas more optimistic works will depict the character recovering and [[RecoveredAddict overcoming their addiction]] (or at least beginning to).
Compare and contrast OffTheWagon, in which a recovered addict relapses (it's possible for a work to be an example of both tropes, if the work opens after the character has made their initial attempt at recovery). In TV series and cartoons aimed at children, this may often be the subject of a VerySpecialEpisode (possibly with a FrothyMugsOfWater-style substitute for a real drug). Typically an example of DrugsAreBad. May lead to the character's friends and family StagingAnIntervention.
See also TheAlcoholic, TheGamblingAddict, FunctionalAddict, AddledAddict and TheTeetotaler for related character types.
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* ''ComicBook/GreenArrow''. ''Snowbirds Don't Fly'' is a two episode arc in issues #85 and #86 that showed how Green Arrow's ward Roy "Speedy" Harper had become a heroin addict and the consequences of his actions.
* ''ComicBooks/IronMan'': The ''Demon in a Bottle'' story arc from 1979 deals with Tony Stark's slow descent into alcoholism. Although he managed to seemingly beat the addiction by the end of the arc, it returned later to further ruin his life, and has been a major defining element for the character ever since.
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* The primary plotline in the Wakefield story in ''Film/{{Traffic}}'' centres on Bob Wakefield's daughter Caroline, who develops an addiction to heroin after being introduced to it by her boyfriend. Her parents put her in rehab, but she escapes and resorts to theft and prostitution to fund her habit. At the end of the film she's back in rehab and seems more committed to recovering.
* Several minor characters in ''Film/{{Trainspotting}}'' and its source novel undergo this, most notably Tommy, who is introduced to heroin by Renton after his girlfriend dumps him and ultimately contracts HIV.
* ''Film/RequiemForADream'' chronicles three out of four main characters' agonizing descent into drug addiction. Director Creator/DarrenAronofsky stated that he was attempting to explore the parallels between different types of addiction in the film:
-->''Requiem for a Dream'' is not about heroin or about drugs… The Harry-Tyrone-Marion story is a very traditional heroin story. But putting it side by side with the Sara story, we suddenly say, 'Oh, my God, what is a drug?' The idea that the same inner monologue goes through a person's head when they're trying to quit drugs, as with cigarettes, as when they're trying to not eat food so they can lose 20 pounds, was really fascinating to me. I thought it was an idea that we hadn't seen on film and I wanted to bring it up on the screen.''
* During the course of ''[[Film/{{Scarface1983}} Scarface]]'', Tony and his girlfriend Elvira become addicted to cocaine as he rises up the ranks of the dealers/distributors.
* ''Film/TheBasketballDiaries'' (and its source book) depicts Jim Carroll's descent into heroin and cocaine addiction.
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* Dick Diver in ''Literature/TenderIsTheNight'' begins to drink heavily as a coping mechanism due to his wife's mental illness, eventually becoming TheAlcoholic.
* In ''Literature/VenusPrime 4'', Sparta starts taking various pharmaceuticals in an attempt to counteract the drugs that erased part of her memories. Instead, she ends up severely addicted to one of the drugs, and by the end of the book, she's caused such severe damage to her own brain from drug abuse that she loses her enhanced perception abilities.
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* ''Series/BabylonFive'':
** In the second season Dr. Franklin starts using stims to keep himself going as more and more injured refugees arrive from the Narn-Centauri War. As time goes on, he becomes more reliant on them, even after the war ends and by the mid-third season it's clear he's become dependent on them. Once he realizes it, he goes on a "[[JourneyToFindOneself Walkabout]]" to figure things out.
** Michael Garibaldi is shown to have had a problem with [[TheAlcoholic alcohol]] in the past, but aside from one relapse in the first season he doesn't touch the stuff, making a point to just drink water, until the fifth season at which point he starts spending more and more time intoxicated to passed out [[spoiler:which causes him to miss a critical call, and possibly a chance to stop a war before it begins]].
* A VerySpecialEpisode of ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' (which has since become infamous for its copious {{Narm}}) was focused on Jessie becoming addicted to caffeine pills.
* In ''Series/TheMentalist'' Cho gets injured on duty, and his doctor gives him pain medication which he takes as needed. Over the course of several episodes we see him popping pills. Eventually he realizes he's becoming addicted to them, so he [[GoingColdTurkey flushes the remainder of the pills down his toilet]] and [[RecoveredAddict never takes them again]].
* An early story arc in ''Series/BreakingBad'' featured Jesse (already a habitual user of crystal meth and weed) being introduced to heroin by his girlfriend Jane and slowly becoming addicted. After Jane overdoses, Walt sends Jesse to a rehab facility and he remains clean for most of the rest of the series.
*''Series/{{MASH}}'':
** During the fifth season (Frank's last), Margaret's engagement and eventual marriage to Donald Penobscott effective ends her affair with Frank, which drives him over the edge, and as that season progresses, his obsession for her grows and grows to pathological proportions; his attempts to just talk or eat with her usually ends with him breaking down and making a move on her, only for her to push him away and threatening to tell Penobscott.
** In "Dr. Winchester and Mr. Hyde" Major Charles Emerson Winchester starts taking amphetamines to make up for a lack of sleep and quickly becomes addicted to them.
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* A rather infamous example occurs in the ''WesternAnimation/BraveStarr'' episode "The Price", in which a teenage boy named Jay becomes hooked on "spin" and gets progressively more focused on getting more.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "$pringfield" Mr. Burns opens a casino in Springfield and Marge becomes a gambling addict.
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