Editing Drugs, Chemicals, and Toxins (section)

=== Addiction and Substance Abuse ===
Some drugs are addictive, either physically (affecting the morph) or mentally (affecting the ego)—and sometimes both. Every time a character uses the drug (or after an appropriate amount of use, as determined by the gamemaster), they must make a WIL x 3 Test to avoid addiction. Each drug has an Addiction Modifier that will modify this test.
Failure indicates that the character has become addicted—they immediately acquire the Addiction negative trait. Addiction is measured in three levels: Minor, Moderate, and Major. The severity determines how often an addicted character needs the drug and what the negative effects of not using the drug are.
An addicted character must continue to make WIL x 3 Tests as they use the drug, as determined by the gamemaster. Failure indicates the character’s addiction severity increases.
Addiction is of indefinite duration. To clean up, the character must stay off the drug for 1 week for each level of addiction. Resisting this craving is difficult, and should at least require another WIL x 3 Test, modified by the drug’s Addiction modifier. Players and gamemasters are encouraged to roleplay an attempt to kick a habit. Each week the character is off the drug, the addiction drops by one level. When it reaches 0, the character is clean ... though there is always danger of a relapse.
Physical addictions do not carry over to a new morph if the character resleeves, but mental addictions do. If the character uploads and resleeves, the mental addictions persist, and the morph the character leaves behind remains physically addicted. This means that poor or unlucky characters may occasionally find themselves resleeved into a morph that has a physical addiction. In this case, the character is subject to the physical addictiveness of the drug but not the mental addiction, although if they break down and indulge in the drug, they may themself
become physically addicted.
Characters who resleeve as infomorphs can remain mentally addicted to a substance despite no longer having a body. The market is always happy to provide, though; a wide variety of narcoalgorithms mirroring the effects of most of the drugs described below are available for infomorphs and AIs. For the infomorph-ported narcoalgorithm version of any physically addictive drug described below, consider the Addictiveness to be effectively mental.