Sci Fi /Cyberpunk drugs

What are people hooked on in the future? What's the cartel runner got stashed in his ship? Doesn't have to be too realistic so long as it's interesting

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Anti-depressants that actually make you happy, rather than balancing out your mood. When you're content with life, corporate marketing is less likely to work, as you feel whole with not only yourself, but your fellow man, thus you're unlikely to try to "keep up with the Jones's" or buy products that will not make you happy. As such, corporates have blackballed the production of such drugs. Happy drugs are now produced in labs that have dubious standards, some of these products intentionally contain addictive elements to force a person to continuously take the product, some of them demand a high price for just a single dose. Happy drugs may cause sudden emotional melt-downs in people that have lost touched with their inner most dreams, and desires, leading to cyberpsychosis-like states when the happy feeling goes away.

Slide, an artificially created neurotransmitter that greatly increases bandwidth between the brain and the neural lace. Users can think and command networked devices at the significantly faster speed of the lace, but it degrades neuronal efficacy with repeated use. Prolonged exposure results in early onset Alzheimer's, dementia, and other mental capacity diseases.

Hulk, artificially created monocarboxylate transporters that remove lactic acid from muscles far more effectively than natural MCTs. Injections to targeted muscle groups allow them to operate at peak capacity without fatigue for hours at a time. Prolonged exposure results in chronic fatigu, lactic acid poisoning, heart palpitations, and finally cardiac arrest.

Ac/co/rding to Batman Beyond, mostly gene-splicing drugs that turn you into beastfolk. But then those aren't addictive, the effects are permanent, and using more than one results in body horror. More like what you described are super-steroids that give you temporary superhuman strength delivered in a patch like nicotine, referred to as "slappers". Side effects include increased aggression and addiction to the steroids. Long term use or overdose can result in brain-death and muscle atrophy.

I'm reading 'Dune', and one of Baron Harkonnen's men is described to be hooked on some drug that is partly consistent of music (I think through hypnose?). It has this psychological component, but I think it also consists of usual physical components, as the officer took antidote (no further details) before one meeting to be fresh again (which he is only partly).

I'm trying to find the sentence that mentioned the nature of the drug again, but that's the gist of it.

That's cool, if slightly terrifying. Especially if you take the old-school cyberpunk "console cowboys" type approach, where you have some super-pro guys who are the best of the best, but start young. Burnouts with those kind of conditions would be seriously depressing.

Sounds a bit like your regular "happy" drugs like E and shit, but originating as anti-depressants is pretty grim.

A variation on your semi-standard stim-sense/BTL-type thing, where you get other people's experiences or feelings: Faith.

As in, you truly believe - you believe, with all the conviction of a priest and are content spiritually - you have no doubts that god is out there, and is looking out for you, or whatever.
And you just chip it in, tuning in to someone else's religious conviction and contentment.

For bonus points, some of the biggest producers of Faith chips would likely be linked to religious terrorists of all stripes - after all, they've got shit-tons of conviction.

A drug called Winning, with variants called Tiger's Blood, and Charlie Sheen (with a double black rarity due to its extreme likelihood to kill the user). Winning and its variants are combat stims that boost the metabolic rate in the muscles, increased endurance, lowered pain stimulation, increase perception rate & reflexes. The negative side effects of such a drug are many, while under its effects, an extreme feeling of happiness and violent rage flood the user, upon taking the drug a sudden JOLT of this mixed emotions may cause a user of this drug to attempt to attack the first person they see, The second side effect is lowered higher thinking as a haze of violent happiness takes over, the third side effect is paranoia caused by heightened senses and the extreme expression of the fight response being expressed. The result is a killing machine in human form, allowing the user to take down some one even twice their own size, or partially chromed, users of the drugs have been reported to be able to endure brawls with ease, often used in blood sport matches to bring extra drama to a fight, or take a bullet and maintain peak combat performance while the drug is in effect. These combat-stims are a favorite among criminal enforcers, and some corporate enforces who're still sporting (mostly) meat suits. The drugs can last from several hours to minutes dependent on the variant, with Charlie Sheen lasting up to a day (but usually killing the user of it before they see another sunrise from over stress of the heart and internal damage from muscle tearing and liver shutdown).

>Semuta, the drug-music combination that played itself in deepest consciousness.

Just read that book for the second time, so much went over my head as an underage b&.

Thanks for bringing Dune into this thread, I'm going to look for one of the passages about the trance the Fremen go into for the Water of Life/Death ceremony.

Memes.

>What's the cartel runner got stashed in his ship?
Stuff that we don't consider particularly harmful or illicit at all.

Coffee, sugar, high fructose corn syrup, "Say No To Drugs" pamphlets that go against government interests, stuff like that.

[...] was addicted to semuta, the drug-music combination that played itself in the deepest consciousness.

That's it, not much more info, but interesting enough, one can come up with the details oneself.

>A condensed form of a highly addictive softdrink
>A cocktail posthumously extracted from the brains of customers who attended the launch of a subsequently discontinued new flavor of gum described as "out of this world".
>"daytripper" pills made by repeatedly coating layer upon layer of drug aerosols to create colorful fordite rollercoasters of random ups and downs.

Synthetic opiate that is 100X more powerful than heroin, doesn't make you itchy or get nauseous. Down side is it has a much higher chance of OD.

fentanyl

>psychologically active ferrofluid injected into the brain stem, causes hallucinations based on the EM spectrum of the area. Originally developed by governments as a way of contacting deep cover agents.
>A gasoline-based amphetamine popular among riggers.
>Back alley hooch made from cardboard.

weed and liquid memes is essentially semuta

with brain wave tracking headsets and software calibration you could custom-simulate music to complement designer drugs and/or plain old acid. a fun side project for a punky machine learning major - just hope the sketchy third-party programs (obviously the most fun, if a little intense) aren't trying to condition you (they are, but so are the proprietary ones, and at least they don't make you crave DIET BEPSU©)

In the Butleran Jihad one of the main characters was a pharmacist who was basically popping drugs left and right and was the father to the deformed scintist woman.

The main thing I remember was when they were using the witches as psychic bombs and the soldiers who escorted them were given drugs that basically made them super human but virtually assured they would die.

>A drug designed to work around the modified pancreatic systems drug addicts get when they get a "rebuild" as part of their rehabilitation
>A chem-printer and a crate-load of "blank" tabs that it can "bake" into personalised drugs for you with a DNA sample (the tabs usually have a blood drop picture)
>An icebox of gene-cultured appendix replacements that secrete synthetic variant on mescaline into the bloodstream

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Image coffee, but with a milk based protein powder added, to stabilize and extend the effect.

Another option is something called Resistance, a drug that basically nullifies any built up tolerance.
Taking the drug starts with mild shaking, and extreme sweating on the tongue. After a hour, the user starts losing their tolerance to alcohol, nutrients, taste, tobacco, etc.

I see a lot of sticking needles in your eye shit in sci-fi. What reason would you ever have to put a needle through your pupil?
Can you even do that without your eye being fucked afterwards?

1. They learned how there is stuff behind the eye that can penetrate the brain's blood barrier
2. They learned about surgeries where they do that
3. Its super edgy, so it looks cool.
4. A gigantic plaster wouldn't be as symbolic. Even if we are going to more of it, once people realize that plaster infusion can be used for real drugs.

>Butlerian Jihad
>Brian Herbert fanfiction
>fuckingfrankherbertscorpse.jpg

I know in Pitch Black, the morphine addict injects it into his tear ducts, because the actor had talked to an actual morphine addict who had done it when all his other veins had collapsed.

Provided it's appropriately diluted under lab conditions so the dosage is kept safe and consistent, does fentanyl have any downsides relative to heroin?

It'll destroy your life even more?

It doesn't really get you all that high, and the effects don't last very long. It basically just numbs and sedates the user.

On its own, it doesn't have much of a recreational use. Drug dealers use it because when added to cheap heavily cut heroin, it can mimic a much purer product, allowing them to increase their profit margins dramatically.

The problem is that if you add a little fentanyl to a bag of weak heroin and shake it around a bit, it's not actually going to be distributed evenly through the drug. So the user might take some from the weak part of the bag, think the whole bag is weak, and take much more on his next dose. But if that next dose comes from the part of the bag with the fentanyl in it, he's fucked.

> What are people hooked on in the future?
VR waifus (youtube.com/channel/UC4YaOt1yT-ZeyB0OmxHgolA).

I think a lot of drugs which are used nowadays would still be used. You'd still have cocaine and heroin ect. Synergising drugs too. Take this pill before you start drinking and your hangover is greatly reduced. This dermal patch stops you from building cocaine tolerance.
I think what could be really interesting is chemical fab machines. Load up this device with the right ingredients and genetically engineering bacteria start producing amphetamines for you, all automated. Small single use ones for parties. Big industrial scale ones for the serious drug labs.

Also the world of research chemicals is cyberpunk as fuck. People trawling academic papers for analogues, then producing them in china / india and selling them online with no regard for health effects. Probably a whole lot more of that going on. Maybe they'd develop analogues with slightly different effects, less damaging to your body, longer effect ect.

The optic nerve is really direct, and if you just get the pupil you probably wouldn't do too much damage

>Talking about future drugs
>Being up Dune
>Don't mention spice
The galactic economy and civilization in dune literally revolves around the production, export, and consumption of a drug

Everyone knows about Spice though, and it's honestly not all that interesting. Things like the Bene Gesserit were really neat and pretty much all of Dune has dank-ass lore, but the Spice itself is not very interesting beyond being the ultimate McGuffin to make whatever the story needs to work work for the sake of worldbuilding and miracle plot devices.

the juice. The drug that allows spacers to pull off intense high-g maneuvers without shattering bones or squishing organs

Dust
A nano drug that attaches itself directly to the pleasure centers of the brain once ingested

Now I'm actually interested in this concept. Assuming you have purpose made one time use nano machines that you can inject what would they have to do to, say, operate in zero g while vastly reducing the wear on your body and how would that same drug affect you in normal gravity?