A.K.A.
ETOH
Ethyl Alcohol (the kind you drink)
This country is the largest consumer of cocaine in the world.
United States
Classic 1936 film about the evils of marijuana use.
Reefer Madness
Most alcohol is broken down here, by an enzyme called alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), which transforms ethanol into a toxic compound called acetaldehyde (CH3CHO), a known carcinogen.
Liver
The bulk of the Big Book was dictated here, in New Jersey's largest city.
Newark
Lysergic acid diethylamide
LSD
This East Asian nation of 7,000 islands has some of the most punitive methamphetamine laws on record.
Philippines
(2000). Don Cheadle's a cop. The guy who played Manolo in Scarface is a drug dealer. Michael Douglas is a Congressman.
Traffic
Medications prescribed by doctors to treat persistent or severe pain are this class of drugs, meaning "an inability to feel pain". The answer is not "narcotic".
Analgesics
A verb meaning "to walk with purpose".
Trudge
Hydromorphone
Dilaudid.
According to Feb 2020 stats, this southern/central US state had the highest % of meth use per capita.
Arkansas
Haunted refrigerator hallucinations. Dope fiends running around New York. Jennifer Connelly in a very compromising position (2000)
Requiem for a Dream
Prozac, Lamictal and Zoloft are all examples of these types of medications.
SSRIs
"Let no alcoholic say he cannot recover unless he has his ___ back. This just isn't so."
Family
Mitragyna speciosa
Kratom
This Central American country - known as British Honduras up until 1973 - is a well-known destination for American criminals fleeing prosecution.
Belize
A gang of dope fiends in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1996. Based on the 1993 novel of the same name.
Trainspotting.
These are fundamental units of the brain and nervous system, the cells responsible for receiving sensory input from the external world, for sending motor commands to our muscles, and for transforming and relaying the electrical signals at every step in between.
Neurons
A Vision For You:
"...the awful awakening to the hideous four horsemen: terror, bewilderment, frustration and this"
Despair
The active ingredient in this is desomorphone.
Krokodil
If you really want to get away from it all you can go to Ushuaia, which is the southernmost point in South America located in this country.
Argentina
Rich kids, cocaine, and a young Robert Downey Jr (1987). Based on the novel of the same name.
Less Than Zero
This is a hormone and a neurotransmitter that is associated with love, empathy, trust, sexual activity, and relationship-building.
Oxytocin
The 12 steps were developed based on a template from this group.
Oxford Group