History PlayingWith / DrFeelgood

** Dr. Bob is trying to fund his care for the poor and unable to pay or a research project or something else that takes a lot of money by being a Dr. Feelgood to the rich, in a case of being a RobinHood and believing TheEndJustifiesTheMeans.

** TruthInTelevision, at least for those who can say ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney, and sometimes even outside of that.

** A psychiatrist prescribes patients pills such as amphetamines and benzodiazipines before considering other forms of therapy for their conditions.
** Dr. Bob knowingly diverts drugs to his or her own possession, for later use or trade or sale.

** Dr. Bob literally hands the pills out like candy, without even bothering with prescriptions or medical exams or anything else - he or she may as well be a street dealer working out of a medical office. He or she may not even be a real "doctor," just someone with access to the drugs in the medical setting.
** Dr. Bob's very first response when someone comes in for care is to prescribe them a cocktail of methamphetamine and morphine, because he or she believes speedballs cure anything.
** Everyone always parties at Dr. Bob's mansion because they know he or she has the best drugs in town.

** Dr. Bob only misuses the drugs himself or herself, and tries to keep it somewhat of a secret.

** The place in which Dr. Bob lives has very strict drug controls, and Dr. Bob knows that the drug, despite being addictive or dangerous in some cases, is the best treatment he or she can offer a patient. This can be TruthInTelevision in some instances, as well. (In at least one example, a psychiatrist prescribed suboxone - ''a synthetic heroin analog'' - for a patient with severe treatment-resistant depression and chronic pain [[GodzillaThreshold for which no antidepressant/antipsychotic combination was effective]], because the reasoning was that a managed opiate addiction was better than the patient committing suicide. It wasn't even as crazy as it might sound - opiates ''do'' have an antidepressant effect and are the most effective of painkillers.)
** Dr. Bob knows the patient is an addict but believes in managed treatment or harm reduction, and would rather provide the patient with their opiates or stimulants in a way he or she can try to supervise and make less dangerous for the patient than street acquisition. Also can be TruthInTelevision, with such things as methadone or suboxone management for heroin addicts and transitioning stimulant addicts who are self-medicating ADHD or similar to set-dosage pills rather than injection.

* '''Inverted''': Dr. Bob believes DrugsAreBad to the point of BlackAndWhiteInsanity, and refuses to even prescribe a small dosage of painkillers to a cancer patient screaming in pain or even a ''laxative'' to a patient who hasn't had a bowel movement in a week, instead screaming at them to "toughen up."

** Dr. Bob is a sketchy, stereotypical BackAlleyDoctor with a sign advertising all of the drugs he or she has available with their prices next to them.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Dr. Bob is actually a normal, professional doctor who would never think of doing such things... until a tragic loss of a patient, a massive malpractice suit, his or her practice losing patients due to MaliciousSlander and bad press that he or she is a DeadlyDoctor. Unable to sustain a legitimate practice after this, and entirely disillusioned with medicine, he or she becomes DrFeelgood, dispensing painkillers and speed and sleeping pills as if they were candy. He/she sucks at being a drug dealer, and an arrest soon happens. While in prison, he/she has a moment of WhatHaveIDone, undergoes rehab, and somehow on release becomes the first to petition for reinstatment of his/her medical license and reopens a legitimate practice in another state. Then someone finds out about the past...

* '''Invoked''':

** Dr. Bob with a failing practice and deeply in debt refuses to become DrFeelgood, even though he or she knows doing so would be a way out of the problems.
** A patient refuses the overprescribing or the drug and finds another doctor that will offer non-drug or more responsible drug treatments for their illness. Can be TruthInTelevision, often in the fields of pain management or psychiatry, because there ''are'' overprescribing doctors or doctors who prescribe before other solutions/prescribe the wrong drugs in both.

** "If this doctor did this in RealLife he'd be arrested and sued..."

** Dr. Bob is shown having lost his license/become a BackAlleyDoctor due to "overprescribing" or drug law violations.
** A line of patients is outside a shady-looking doctor's office or pain clinic or in a waiting room ... all of them looking like stereotypical junkies.

** No one really suffers bad effects even though the ''doctor'' is totally irresponsible, the user patients actually are ''not'': they are {{Functional Addict}}s or otherwise managing their conditions themselves, using the DrFeelgood to maintain stable supplies and avoid risk, or they are not hardcore addicts despite the drugs being addictive - only using them for fun or temporary utility, making sure it goes no further than that.
** Dr. Bob is trying to fund his or her care for the poor and unable to pay or a research project or something else that takes a lot of money by being a DrFeelgood to the rich, in a case of being a RobinHood and believing TheEndJustifiesTheMeans.
* '''Played For Laughs''': Dr. Bob's clients [[IncrediblyLameFun show joy from drugs that wouldn't be remotely recreationally useful or abusable like low doses of statins.]].

** A doctor writes any client who can pay (or whose insurance can pay) prescriptions for addictive or dangerous prescription drugs.
** A doctor turns a blind eye to a patient seeking addictive or dangerous drugs who is obviously an addict or obviously does not have the disease they exist to treat.

** A doctor knowingly diverts drugs to his or her own possession, for later use or trade or sale.

** The doctor literally hands the pills out like candy, without even bothering with prescriptions or medical exams or anything else - he or she may as well be a street dealer working out of a medical office. He or she may not even be a real "doctor," just someone with access to the drugs in the medical setting.
** The doctor's very first response when someone comes in for care is to prescribe them a cocktail of methamphetamine and morphine, because he or she believes speedballs cure anything.
** Everyone always parties at the doctor's mansion because they know he or she has the best drugs in town.

** The doctor occasionally writes a questionable sleeping pill or painkiller or stimulant script for himself or someone else, but doesn't make a regular business of it.
** The doctor only misuses the drugs himself or herself, and tries to keep it somewhat of a secret.
** The doctor is willing to occasionally give some prescriptions for the occasional non-medicinally necessary but useful as tools but puts his foot down at signs of actual addiction or dependence and insists upon proper treatment. His patients are to use the drugs, not have the drugs use them.

** The place in which the doctor lives has very strict drug controls, and the doctor knows that the drug, despite being addictive or dangerous in some cases, is the best treatment he or she can offer a patient. This can be TruthInTelevision in some instances, as well. (In at least one example, a psychiatrist prescribed suboxone - ''a synthetic heroin analog'' - for a patient with severe treatment-resistant depression and chronic pain [[GodzillaThreshold for which no antidepressant/antipsychotic combination was effective]], because the reasoning was that a managed opiate addiction was better than the patient committing suicide. It wasn't even as crazy as it might sound - opiates ''do'' have an antidepressant effect and are the most effective of painkillers.)
** Similarly, the doctor knows the patient is an addict but believes in managed treatment or harm reduction, and would rather provide the patient with their opiates or stimulants in a way he or she can try to supervise and make less dangerous for the patient than street acquisition. Also can be TruthInTelevision, with such things as methadone or suboxone management for heroin addicts and transitioning stimulant addicts who are self-medicating ADHD or similar to set-dosage pills rather than injection.
** The doctor is trying to make a point that an allegedly dangerous drug isn't as dangerous as claimed and is willing to face the consequences for doing so.
** The doctor works in a "pill mill" in a jurisdiction with minimal or no prescription restrictions or transparency.
** When depicted as TruthInTelevision in some instances.
* '''Inverted''': The doctor believes DrugsAreBad to the point of BlackAndWhiteInsanity, and refuses to even prescribe a small dosage of painkillers to a cancer patient screaming in pain or even a ''laxative'' to a patient who hasn't had a bowel movement in a week, instead screaming at them to "toughen up."
* '''Subverted''': A doctor refuses to prescribe to an obvious drug addict who appears to be faking symptoms just to get the drugs.

** The doctor is a sketchy, stereotypical BackAlleyDoctor with a sign advertising all of the drugs he or she has available with their prices next to them.
** Anytime the doctor appears, the eponymous ''Music/MotleyCrue'' song plays.
* '''Zig Zagged''': The doctor is actually a normal, professional doctor who would never think of doing such things... until a tragic loss of a patient, a massive malpractice suit, his or her practice losing patients due to MaliciousSlander and bad press that he or she is a DeadlyDoctor. Unable to sustain a legitimate practice after this, and entirely disillusioned with medicine, he or she becomes DrFeelgood, dispensing painkillers and speed and sleeping pills as if they were candy. He/she sucks at being a drug dealer, and an arrest soon happens. While in prison, he/she has a moment of WhatHaveIDone, undergoes rehab, and somehow on release becomes the first to petition for reinstatment of his/her medical license and reopens a legitimate practice in another state. Then someone finds out about the past...
* '''Averted''': The doctor is a normal, professional doctor who does not prescribe inappropriately, unless, perhaps, upholding the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath Hippocratic Oath]] over the law demands it.

** Someone mentions going to the doctor to get their fix.

* '''Exploited''':
** To show just ''how'' unethical the doctor is.
** To make a statement about drug laws in one way or another.
** To show a character as an addict, whether FunctionalAddict or OffTheWagon.
* '''Defied''':
** A doctor with a failing practice and deeply in debt refuses to become DrFeelgood, even though he or she knows doing so would be a way out of the problems.
** A patient refuses the overprescribing or the drug and finds another doctor that will offer non-drug or more responsible drug treatments for their illness. Can be TruthInTelevision, often in the fields of pain management or psychiatry, because there ''are'' overprescribing doctors or doctors who prescribe before other solutions/prescribe the wrong drugs in both.
* '''Discussed''':
** "I think you have too many pills here. Are you sure you even know what you're taking them for?" "Does it matter?"
** "I know this really good doctor who will prescribe anything you want for a price." "Oh? What's his number?"
* '''Conversed''':
** "Maybe we should have [[Series/{{House}} the doctor being an addict to opiates here]]."
** "If this doctor did this in RealLife he'd be arrested and sued..."
* '''Implied''':
** A doctor is shown having lost his license/become a BackAlleyDoctor due to "overprescribing" or drug law violations.
** A line of patients is outside a shady-looking doctor's office or pain clinic or in a waiting room ... all of them looking like stereotypical junkies.
** Someone rich is shown with a medicine cabinet featuring tons of pills and other medications, and to be undergoing bad side effects from them.

** The doctor is arrested or sued or otherwise legally disciplined for engaging in such behavior.

** As in the sometimes TruthInTelevision examples above, the doctor is trying to do his or her best to care for patients even if the law says otherwise.

** The doctor is trying to fund his or her care for the poor and unable to pay or a research project or something else that takes a lot of money by being a DrFeelgood to the rich, in a case of being a RobinHood and believing TheEndJustifiesTheMeans.
* '''Played For Laughs''': The doctor's clients [[IncrediblyLameFun show joy from drugs that wouldn't be remotely recreationally useful or abusable like low doses of statins.]].

** "Maybe we should have [[{{House}} the doctor being an addict to opiates here]]."

* '''Conversed''':
** "I think you have too many pills here. Are you sure you even know what you're taking them for?" "Does it matter?"
** "I know this really good doctor who will prescribe anything you want for a price." "Oh? What's his number?"

** The place in which the doctor lives has very strict drug controls, and the doctor knows that the drug, despite being addictive or dangerous in some cases, is the best treatment he or she can offer a patient. This can be TruthInTelevision in some instances, as well. (In at least one example, a psychiatrist prescribed suboxone - ''a synthetic heroin analog'' - for a patient with severe treatment-resistant depression and chronic pain [[GodzillaThreshold for which no antidepressant/antipsychotic combination was effective]], because the reasoning was that a managed opiate addiction was better than the patient committing suicide.)

** The place in which the doctor lives has very strict drug controls, and the doctor knows that the drug, despite being addictive or dangerous in some cases, is the best treatment he or she can offer a patient. This can be TruthInTelevision in some instances, as well. (In at least one example, a psychiatrist prescribed suboxone - ''a synthetic heroin analog'' - for a patient with severe treatment-resistant depression and chronic pain [[GodzillaThreshold for which ''no'' antidepressant/antipsychotic combination was effective]], because the reasoning was that a managed opiate addiction was better than the patient committing suicide.)

** The place in which the doctor lives has very strict drug controls, and the doctor knows that the drug, despite being addictive or dangerous in some cases, is the best treatment he or she can offer a patient. This can be TruthInTelevision in some instances, as well.

** Anytime the doctor appears, the MotleyCrue song plays.

** No one really suffers bad effects even though the ''doctor'' is totally irresponsible, the user patients actually are ''not'': they are FunctionalAddicts or otherwise managing their conditions themselves, using the DrFeelgood to maintain stable supplies and avoid risk, or they are not hardcore addicts despite the drugs being addictive - only using them for fun or temporary utility, making sure it goes no further than that.

* '''Parodied''': The doctor is a sketchy, stereotypical BackAlleyDoctor with a sign advertising all of the drugs he or she has available with their prices next to them.

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* '''Straight''': A doctor writes any client who can pay (or whose insurance can pay) prescriptions for addictive or dangerous prescription drugs.

* '''Exaggerated''': The doctor literally hands the pills out like candy, without even bothering with prescriptions or medical exams or anything else - he or she may as well be a street dealer working out of a medical office. He or she may not even be a real "doctor," just someone with access to the drugs in the medical setting.

* '''Downplayed''': The doctor occasionally writes a questionable sleeping pill or painkiller or stimulant script for himself or someone else, but doesn't make a regular business of it.

* '''Justified''': The place in which the doctor lives has very strict drug controls, and the doctor knows that the drug, despite being addictive or dangerous in some cases, is the best treatment he or she can offer a patient. This can be TruthInTelevision in some instances, as well.

* '''Averted''': The doctor is a normal, professional doctor who does not prescribe inappropriately, unless, perhaps, upholding the HippocraticOath over the law demands it.
* '''Enforced''': In any depiction where this is TruthInTelevision.
** To maintain versimilitude in some depictions of the medical profession, where diverting at least for oneself happens in RealLife.
* '''Lampshaded''': "I'm going to give you a script for Desoxyn, that is what we call methamphetamine. Whatever you do, do not crush it up and inject it or snort it. Okay?"

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* '''Averted''': The doctor is a normal, professional doctor who does not prescribe inappropriately, unless, perhaps, FirstDoNoHarm demands it.

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