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Bob likes his booze. ''[[The Alcoholic|A lot.]]'' He may be a recreational alcoholic, or drinks to [[Drowning My Sorrows|escape remembering]] his [[Dark and Troubled Past]]. Fate, being a cruel and fickle mistress, has other ideas. Alice drags Bob (usually shambling and slurring rather than kicking and screaming) somewhere without liquor of any kind. The reasons vary, Alice may be doing an intervention, she may be trying to save his life from people out for his blood, or Bob (all by his lonesome) stumbled onto a [[Put on a Bus|bus]]/ship/plane/rocket/FarsideIsland to a place where the only spirits are of the figurative variety.
Effectively, Bob has been
Despite the use of beer in the description, this trope also applies to other forms of drugs. Notably [[Not a Morning Person|caffeine]]. Compare [[Going Cold Turkey]], when the sudden withdrawal is a voluntary decision on Bob's part.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[El Hazard]]'
** While El-Hazard does have native alcoholic beverages, they just have to keep Fisjisawa away from them but in the OAV at least, Fujisawa is also a smoker and El-Hazard has no tobacco equivalent. Fujisawa runs out of smokes about half way through the last episode and [[Must Have Nicotine|the nicotine cravings]] kick in just in time for the finale. Good thing it turns out that it turns his sober level super-strength [[Up to Eleven]].
== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Tintin]] and the Picaros'' has Captain Haddock getting slipped a drug by Professor Calculus that makes him extremely nauseous whenever he takes a sip of liquor. He's none too pleased when he finds out.
== Film ==
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* Renton's parents in ''[[Trainspotting]]'' lock him in his room to force him through withdrawal.
* In ''[[Cornered]]'', the storeowner forces his junkie nephew, who is craving for a fix, to stay in the apartment above the store every night until he's well.
== Literature ==
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* Eddie of Stephen King's [[The Dark Tower|Dark Tower]] books gets nailed to the wagon when {{spoiler|Roland kidnaps him into a heroin-less Mid-World through a magic door in ''The Drawing of the Three''. Notably, the nailing is permanent}}
▲== Live Action TV ==
* In ''[[Eureka]]'', Doctor Grant (who is from the late 1940s and believes [[Smoking Is Cool]]) is injected with nanobots that hurt him when he smokes.
* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'': Dean and Bobby lock Sam up in the panic room to "detox" from demon's blood.
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* One episode of ''[[Frasier]]'' has him attempt to counsel his agent Bibi into quitting smoking. He ends up holing her up in his apartment for three days, but in the end all the encouragement she needs is to be reminded that her "84 year-old and on his third pacemaker" fiancé won't marry her unless she quits.
* Charlie from ''[[Lost]]'' is a heroin addict until he crashes on the island, where he has no access to drugs. {{spoiler|[[Off the Wagon|or so he thinks.]]}}
== Newspaper Comics ==
* ''[[Bloom County]]'': Binkley once forced his father to quit cigarettes cold turkey by disposing of all of those in their house and hiding his wallet and his car keys so he couldn't go out and buy more.
▲== Real Life ==
* [http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2003-02.html A smoker] was on a Coach—that didn't allow smoking—for what would have been ''twelve hours'' had her [[Must Have Nicotine|craving]] not gotten the better of her.▼
** To clarify, a passenger on a long distance, non-smoking bus just couldn't take it anymore and exited the bus while it was on the highway, dying in the process.▼
* This happens to Liriel, aka "Blueberry" in ''[[Drowtales]]'', notable for her being a teenager by drow standards (but chronologically in her thirties). She's forced sober because Ariel takes her (she's Ariel's slave) to the overworld to look for a friend. Liriel's reason for alcoholism? {{spoiler|She was trying to suppress the pain of Diva'ratrika's [[Demonic Possession|Aura Possession]].}}
* Phillip from ''[[Goats]]'' during the whole multiverse arc. He's kept prisoner in a "dry dimension" where there's no beer.
* Rumisiel from ''[[Misfile]]'' is forced to stay sober while living with Ash and her dad. It's a work in progress for all of them.
* Tanked gets Nailed to the Wagon in ''[[Bear Nuts]]'' chapter 29: "Tanked Goes Dry", when one of Evil's pranks causes the zoo to lose it's liquor license, cutting off Tanked's supply. None of the other bears are particularly happy about this since Tanked starts throwing tantrums all over the place. The following chapter (":[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|The Origin Of Tanked]]") reveals that, thanks to a particular childhood experience, going sober might be legitimately bad for Tanked.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* One ''[[Metalocalypse]]'' villain's [[Start of Darkness]] resulted from his legally mandated sobriety.
* ''[[Life's a Zoo]]'': Happens to the entire cast in "Self Helpless" when all the housemates are forcibly deprived of their addictive vices.
== Real Life ==
▲* [http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2003-02.html A smoker] was on a Coach—that didn't allow smoking—for what would have been ''twelve hours'' had her [[Must Have Nicotine|craving]] not gotten the better of her.
▲** To clarify, a passenger on a long distance, non-smoking bus just couldn't take it anymore and exited the bus while it was on the highway, dying in the process.
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[[Category:This Is Your Index On Drugs]]
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