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(Some fictional medications can have side effects that violate the laws of nature)

Psycho Serum: A Super Serum that makes you crazy and mentally unstable, among other unpleasant side effects.

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Poison Is Corrosive: Poison so dangerous that it even eats through clothing and human skin upon contact.Pink Elephants: Hallucinations from alcohol (in reality, alcohol only causes hallucinations if the person is an alcoholic or suffering from severe alcohol poisoning).Perfect Poison: A poison that is ludicrously easy to kill with.One Drink Will Kill the Baby: Pregnant women are prevented from consuming alcohol because of the dangers it would pose on the developing child.One Dose Fits All: The same amount of medicine has exactly the same effect on everyone, regardless of any factors that would require different doses.No Medication for Me: A character goes off medication cold-turkey because they feel that the medication was harming them rather than helping.Marijuana Is LSD: Effects of certain drugs are exaggerated for the sake of comedy or drama.Magic Antidote: An antidote that works instantly on a person.Love Is in the Air: A drug that causes other people to fall in love with somebody or at least get horny.Instant Sedation: A person goes out like a light when exposed to or ingested a sedative.Immune to Drugs: A person whom drugs have no effect on, not even to get high.G-Rated Drug: A non-drug substance that is treated with all the properties of a drug.Fingertip Drug Analysis: The old method of dabbing your finger into a substance and then tasting it to see what it is.Fantastic Drug: A drug that only exists within a sci-fi or fantasty-based story setting also sometimes called a designer drug.Drugs Causing Slow-Motion: Drugs cause your perception of the surrounding world to 'slow down'.Drugged Lipstick: A cosmetic that puts people under another person's spell through mouth-to-mouth interactions.Bitter Almonds: That particular nutty smell and/or taste that indicates that something is poisoned.Anti-Radiation Drug: Drug treatments that either instantly cure or entirely prevent radiation poisoning to a degree that is highly implausible in the real world.A visit to Erowid is often recommended as an antidote to this in regard to many drugs.

That Old-Time Prescription is a subversion. See also This Is Your Index on Drugs and Toxic Tropes.

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Related to Artistic License – Biology and Artistic License – Medicine. from such writers often cause those knowledgable of such things to want to ask, 'Dude, what have you been smoking?' The absolute worst examples may lead to being Killed Off for Real. Sadly though, there are some writers who never seem to do their homework on the substances in question. Staples of Murder Mysteries and Medical Dramas, and not too infrequently plot devices in Science Fiction (hard or otherwise). Ah, the wonderful world of medications, drugs, and poisons.

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