Add a drug that can cure Addiction

[JackMoloney]

Addictions aren't punishing enough, IMO.  Oh no, I'm addicted to a stamina-boosting chem with minimal or no downsides, whatever will I do?  Guess I'll just take more of it and never suffer a single penalty.  Make addicts receive fewer benefits from the chem they're addicted to, that's what I think.

Most high end stamina-boosting chems have downsides. Only the medicinal ones don't.

• Methemphetamine: Brain damage that cannot be resolved while the chem is in your system; you won't be able to walk straight until it's gone if you use it for longer than a minute.
  
• Aranesp: Ticking tox damage that puts you on a timer; chance to be straight up stunned which is honestly ridiculous for a drug that's supposed to make you stamina-efficient.
  
• Bath Salts: Can't walk for shit, take random brute, starting tox, rads, and brain damage, and other drugs with their respective effects (namely meth). But hey! Can clear stuns, right?
  
• Caffeine: Has to be taken in very large amounts, and straight up kills you if its too long in your system.
  

Microdosing does remove all penalty momentarily, however, you will have to actively manage your own addictions and splitting big doses into small, micro ones using chem equipment to not suffer their negative effects. If you are a confirmed antag (after going on a drug rage) that will definitely be a lot more difficult without the right access. If you are crew... Well, that's just one of the benefits of being on the right side.

I think you could have some fun counterplay with addiction where another addictive substance helps treat the withdrawal from another addictive substance.

Maybe some of the more flavorful activities like the gym, pool and sauna can also help? Take a spa day to rejuvenate

Having a chem like methadone sounds neat. As for the concern of it being able to be mass produced: Just make it not a solution, but a reliever. It'll at it's lowest send addiction down to the first stage, and so until you find a reasonable method or amount of time to clear it up, you'll have to keep taking the needle, requiring micromanagement in exchange for whatever drug rage you went on. Could be sold in a cigarette vend / NanoVend and have minimal effects as a performance enhancing drug on its own.

Giving sauna a purpose also sounds good. And since it's one general place, sec will know where to look in case they've got a drugged up antag running around.

I would also like to point out that realism and goon creates an oxymoron, and that everything in space just happens 'faster.' People get brigged for murder for 5 minutes rather than hours due to shift time not being that long, and 'addictions' are also that short for the same reason. Obv I don't know anything about the direction of Goonstation, but those are some of the observations I've made that just make sense.