On the off-chance someone will know:
May. 23rd, 2010 06:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trace_of_scarletI was wondering: someone is a recovering painkiller addict. They've been clean for a while and they go to Narcotics Anonymous meetings. Would they also tend to stay away from other addictive substances, even those that they've never had a problem with? Specifically, would they not have an alcoholic drink in a pub with friends?
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Date: 2010-05-23 04:17 pm (UTC)(And when I say likely not, I mean likely they wouldn't have a drink in a pub etc., not they likely wouldn't stay away from other addictive substances.)
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Date: 2010-05-23 04:22 pm (UTC)In canon, it's implied that it's more that he became addicted because he was forcibly injected several times with highly-addictive painkillers (he was kidnapped), rather than because he has a particularly addictive personality.
SO BASICALLY I DUNNO. *throws up hands*
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Date: 2010-05-23 04:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-23 04:37 pm (UTC)OH CRIMINAL MINDS, WHY YOU SO FUCKED UP.
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Date: 2010-05-24 11:03 pm (UTC)In Starsky and Hutch, Hutch would still have drinks later on, but they didn't really have story arches back then. They did reference his experience in a later episode, though, which is very rare for them to do, so they did remember it, and still let him drink.
I don't really know how it works in real life, however.
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Date: 2010-05-25 12:00 am (UTC)...I'm sorry, you were saying words? ;)
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Date: 2010-05-25 12:09 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-05-23 04:26 pm (UTC)Some still look on alcohol as being separate or different which would easily lead to a relapse. Conversely, some alcoholics won't look on, say, taking painkillers as an addiction because their problems are just with alcohol. The disease is a tricky thing.
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Date: 2010-05-23 04:33 pm (UTC)In the canon, he becomes addicted by having the painkillers forcibly injected several times by the person holding him hostage - rather than, say, because he has an addictive-type personality. Would this affect things, do you think?
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Date: 2010-05-23 04:40 pm (UTC)Best way I ever heard it described was by an old-timer at an AA meeting: "If you take a cucumber, put it in vinegar, and leave it there long enough, it becomes a pickle. That pickle will never be a cucumber again."
Hope that helps. :)
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Date: 2010-05-23 04:45 pm (UTC)It's a character I'm planning to put into
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Date: 2010-05-23 06:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-23 06:47 pm (UTC)And yeeeah. I just know sod-all about addictions more serious than smoking, so I didn't know if drinking booze could relate to having a relapse if the original addiction wasn't booze. Before all that, though, I could see him maybe having one drink to be sociable (and probably getting ID'd multiple times, because he really does look about fourteen).
(Also, drunk!Reid - in the right company - would be funny. But anyway.)!
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Date: 2010-05-23 05:30 pm (UTC)(I took the liberty of writing some stuff for Sam in the body of the post, but obviously you get final say on that.)
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Date: 2010-05-23 05:47 pm (UTC)*pets Cal* All looks fine to me!
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Date: 2010-05-23 05:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-23 06:29 pm (UTC)However, I think if someone is addicted to one thing they are more likely to be attracted to other addictive substances, so if you wanted to use a character that way you could probably justify relapse.
You could always have them have soft drinks?
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Date: 2010-05-24 12:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-24 01:59 am (UTC)And the more I think about it, the more I suspect Reid didn't drink, or at least didn't drink often, even before the kidnapping. I mean look at him - he must have the alcohol tolerance of a kitten!
...No, no, no, I am not allowed to have Reid somehow turned into a kitten. However cute it would be. BAD plotbunny.
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Date: 2010-05-24 02:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-24 03:36 am (UTC)'Sides, I think you owe me Sam!comment, too)
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Date: 2010-05-25 12:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-25 12:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-25 12:17 am (UTC)Also, I need to talk to you before tagging Sam/Meda. I'll log onto AIM in a couple of minutes, just need to finish some stuff off first.
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Date: 2010-05-25 12:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-25 12:20 am (UTC)Will you be around tomorrow night?
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Date: 2010-05-25 12:21 am (UTC)*pause*
Uh, as my social anxiety is kicking my arse lately, nothing bad?
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Date: 2010-05-25 12:22 am (UTC)*cwtches*
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Date: 2010-05-25 12:23 am (UTC)*snugs*
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Date: 2010-05-25 12:25 am (UTC)PS - Icon love.
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Date: 2010-05-25 12:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-24 01:27 am (UTC)He's smart, he knows all the statistics and he'd be sensible enough and probably scared enough by the prospect not to take the risk of developing another addiction by degrees. Also I think Penny would get all of this and help him along. If ever there was anyone who could have masses of fun without the aid of any alcohol whatsoever, it's Penelope Garcia. :D
Of course I have nothing practical to back any of this up, but it makes sense in my head. Hope it helps. :) I might try and keep an eye out for dear Spencer, I haven't done any RPing in ages. I miss it.
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Date: 2010-05-24 01:43 am (UTC)You should come back! I am in crackchat at this very moment.
And speaking of Reid, did you see my WAAAAUGH MUST FIX IT!tinyReid ficlet from a post or two ago?