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** ''[[VideoGame/{{Diablo}} Diablo II]]'' as well. Just google "''Diablo II'' ruined my life". 54,100 results.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom'': The Goron StoryArc involves the usually-industrious race finding a rare treat called marbled rock roast, which serves as a transparent stand-in for marijuana. Any Goron who eats a roast becomes completely obsessed with the rocks to the detriment of everything else in their lives: they stop working altogether, lazily eat all day and night without stopping, talk about nothing but how good it tastes, shun their families and friends, and either sell everything they have or turn to petty theft to fund their habit. They even develop MindControlEyes, which seems to be a take on pot smokers' eyes going red from consumption. In fact, you might call the Gorons affected by marble rock roasts [[IncrediblyLamePun stoners.]]

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom'': The Goron StoryArc involves the usually-industrious race finding a rare treat called marbled rock roast, which serves as a transparent stand-in for marijuana. Any Goron who eats a roast becomes completely obsessed with the rocks to the detriment of everything else in their lives: they stop working altogether, do nothing but lazily eat all day, talk about nothing but how good it tastes, shun their families and friends, and either sell everything they have or turn to petty theft to fund their habit. They even develop MindControlEyes, which seems to be a take on pot smokers' eyes going red from consumption. In fact, you might call the Gorons affected by marble rock roasts [[IncrediblyLamePun stoners.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', similar to ''Drawn Together'' and ''Robot Chicken'' above, had flour being treated like a cocaine analogue. A bag of flour is even cut open with a knife and claimed to be "100% pure".

* In ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'', Malcolm's obsession with fixing up a junker he bought is played like a substance addiction. He raids his savings for automotive parts, his grades drop because of all the time he's spending on the car, and his brother holds an intervention, complete with a guy from the AAA.
** Actually it was played more like an abusive relationship, with the car acting easy and giving him a good ride one day, then physically hurting him the next as he worked to restore it.

* In Season 6 of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Magic = Drugs.

* "Holy Ghost intoxication" or "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_drunkenness drunk in the Spirit]]", a spurious claim from [[Literature/TheBible Scripture]] (usually from Acts chapter 2 and Ephesians 5:18) preached by the likes of Creator/BennyHinn, Rodney Howard Browne, and Kenneth E. Hagin, and presented in Pentecostal and Charismatic circles as TheMoralSubstitute to getting high from real drugs. It can also double as AddictiveMagic.

* Parodied in ''Literature/WelcomeToTheNHK'' when Misaki, jealous of Satou's love for an older, hard drug-using woman, tries to overdose... on mints. Like so many things in this series, it manages to be incredibly tragic and absolutely hilarious at the same time.

* ''The Big Chocolate Bar'' features a ban on chocolates and sweets in a school camp resulting in every single allusion to drugs possible: hopelessly unhealthy students go into catastrophic withdrawal; "dealers" begin making homemade chocolates and selling them on the black market; groups of smugglers transport cases of sweets into the camp, using the limited supply to charge up to twenty dollars per product. Finally, a student robs a general store and overdoses on the stolen confectionery. It's '''hilarious.'''

* IntoxicationEnsues: Where otherwise straightlaced characters accidentally ingest a drug, or too much of their prescribed meds, and HilarityEnsues;

* Parodied in ''LightNovel/WelcomeToTheNHK'', where Misaki, jealous of Satou's love for an older, hard drug-using woman, tries to overdose… on mints. Like so many things in this series, it manages to be incredibly tragic and absolutely hilarious at the same time.

* Parodied in a ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' episode, where Team Rocket somehow gets drunk off water. It's ironic, given this is a series historically known for alcohol-related edits thanks to 4Kids.

* When [[CatGirl Eris]] gets into some catnip in ''LightNovel/CatPlanetCuties'', she goes bouncing around the room and becomes [[GenkiGirl even more hyper than normal]], like she just did a line of coke, instead of getting stoned like how catnip is normally portrayed as a marijuana equivalent.

** The most commonly abused pharmaceuticals (Rx only) are narcotic painkillers (opiates, i.e. Percocet, Vicodin, OxyContin, Morphine, etc), benzodiazepines (anxiolytics/sedatives/hypnotics, i.e. Valium, Xanax, Klonopin, etc), and stimulants (ADD/ADHD/narcolepsy/weight-loss, i.e. Adderall (amphetamine salts), Dexedrine (dextroamphetamine), Desoxyn (dextro-methamphetamine), etc). Each class has its own specific effects, and different drugs in each class can have remarkably different effects from one another.

** Yet another episode had Chester Cheetah snorting up ground up Cheetos like cocaine while listening to Music/{{Rush}} and proclaiming "there is no fucking drummer better than Neil Peart!" before smashing a glass table with his fist.

* Wiki/TVTropes, see JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife for examples.

* [[CloudCuckooLander Larxene]] from ''Webcomic/AnsemRetort'' takes it UpToEleven by getting kicked out of rehab for getting addicted to the '''placebos'''.

* As [[http://www.cracked.com/video_18195_how-breakfast-cereal-mascots-brainwashed-you.html discussed in this Cracked.com video,]] a large number of breakfast cereals would belong on the DEA's controlled substances list if their commercials were taken at face value because they are depicted as astonishingly addictive and stuff that [[CerealViceReward people will go to great lengths to obtain]]. Some of this may be a result of marketing to children, who have to beg or bargain with their parents rather than simply going down to the store and buying a box for themselves. Parodied and almost justified in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', where a box of cereal actually contains a huge (stolen) diamond, and the thief will do ''anything'' to get it back... including dressing up as a cereal mascot and trying all the usual tricks, only to be thwarted again and again.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' has the girls getting a single piece of candy as a reward for saving the day. They instantly get addicted and make a shady deal with Mojo Jojo to get more. When Mojo steals the candy himself, they beat him to an inch of his life over it, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone at which point they realize they have a problem]].

** There's also the episode "Operation: L.I.C.O.R.I.C.E." where Numbuh Five and Black John Licorice have an all-out drinking match [[DuelToTheDeath to the death]]! Did we mention that the drinks of choice are [[FrothyMugsOfWater frothy mugs of PURE SUGAR]]?! To the death, indeed... of your blood-sugar level, that is!

** Yet another episode had Chester Cheetah snorting up ground up Cheetos like cocaine while listening to Rush and proclaiming "there is no fucking drummer better than [[Music/{{Rush}} Neil Peart]]!" before smashing a glass table with his fist.