On the off-chance someone will know:

[trace_of_scarlet]

I 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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[bethan-b-bad.livejournal.com]

*nodnods* Makes sense.

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*

[wanttobeatree.livejournal.com]

HMMM. That's a tricky one. I think I have read/heard somewhere that once you experience one addiction, it can be easier to develop another? BUT I MIGHT BE MAKING THAT UP.

[bethan-b-bad.livejournal.com]

Hmm. That sounds plausible, at least.

OH CRIMINAL MINDS, WHY YOU SO FUCKED UP.

[culf.livejournal.com]

I see someone stole the plot of a Starsky and Hutch episode. Except Hutch was injected with heroin, not painkillers.

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.

[bethan-b-bad.livejournal.com]

Awwwww, adorable slashy icon!

...I'm sorry, you were saying words? ;)

[culf.livejournal.com]

I will always maintain that nothing is as gay as Starsky and Hutch, not even John Barrowman. The episode where Hutch gets addicted to heroin in particular. Starsky is with him when he's detoxing, holding him close, stroking his face while Hutch tries to get even closer than is possible. On top of a double bed.

[bethan-b-bad.livejournal.com]

Awwwwwwwww.