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[Jebu]

The drug/addiction rules don't allow the body metabolism to get rid of the drug, which leads to silly things. If you have a drug with addiction rating 2, and pre-addiction edge of 2, and use one dose every 5 years, your addiction rating will be 6 after 35 years, and bang, you might well get addicted. I know runners won't have a life-expectancy of 35 years, but the example is just trying to point out the non-existence of any possibility of reasonable drug use.

I haven't yet thought this out completely, but I'd like to see addiction rating decreasing over time, if you haven't been addicted yet. After addiction just stick to the rules of (forced) withdrawal.

Let's say the addiction rating will decrease after 10 x addiction rating in days. Of course the addiction rating couldn't drop below the original. Take Kamikaze for example. It has addiction rating of 5, and pre-addiction edge of 2. So, you could take 2 doses of Kamikaze, your addiction rating would increase to 6, and after waiting for 60 days (10 x current addiction ratting) it would drop back to 5. Naturally taking more doses would cancel the waiting period, even if the addiction rating doesn't increase.

This all is meant for physically addictive drugs. Mental addiction works differently in real life, but for simplicity I might try using this for mental addiction rating also.