Editing Drug (section)

= Drugs in 40k = 
===Warp Infused Drugs===
*'''[[Spook]]''' originates in [[Necromunda]], the exact type of substance it is derived from being inconsistent, perhaps because the [[House Orlock|Orlocks]] don't want you to know —ranging from [[Nurgle|decayed corpse starch]] to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe_cubensis a fungus] growing deep in the Underhive. It is highly illegal and highly dangerous due to its connection with the [[warp]], propensity to invite [[Daemon|uninvited guests]], and how it can either [[Psyker|heighten psych]]<s>edel</s>[[Psyker|ic abilities]] or [[Chaos Spawn|turn one into a thingamajig]]. It is nonetheless popular, however, both as a recreational drug and a tool for upping a wyrd's [[Meme|powerlevel]], throughout all levels of Necromundan society and in the wider galaxy 

* There are a number of other [[warp]]-infused drugs going around, including <b>''flects''</b> (literal pieces of mirror which have re<i>flect</i>ed Chaos from within the Eye of Terror), which play a key plot point in the [[Ravenor]] books while the titular inquisitor is running around playing Inquisitorial DEA agent for a while, and the similar but distinct and seemingly milder <b>''gladstones''</b>.

* <b>''Icrotic slime''</b> is another [[Necromunda|Necromundan]] narcotic drug which is apparently actually some sort of blob that you put on your head containing a brain eating amoeba that beyond some point of no return will basically reduce you into a zombie, and you'll be too blissed out to unplug. [[Grimdark]]. Better bring a friend to remove the gelatinous blob from your head in time. Apparently up in the Spire there are drugs that can counteract this and let the uphivers go ''sliming'' without the risk. Whether this actually has to do directly with [[chaos]] is left unsaid but it probably does.

===Combat Drugs===
*'''The ones used by [[Eversor]] assassins''': The reasons why they wreck shit so much. They consume some sort of special cocktail of combat enhancement drugs and ALL THE ADRENALINE/COKE that allows them go WRYYYYYY and shit on everyone nearby. But these drugs can be used only by Eversor assassins, who have had their immune systems enhanced to the point that they can handle the toxicity of the combat drug. Also has the nice side effect of making the assassin's corpse explode upon death.

*'''Polymorphine''': Used by [[Callidus]] assassins. Note that it's POLYMORPH-ine, not poly-MORPHINE. This drug allows the user to alter their body shape and appearance, allowing them to impersonate other persons, members of the opposite sex, and even humanoid xenos like Orks and Eldar. That's why it is so easy to troll [[Macha]]. Sometimes also given out by [[Inquisition|morally ambiguous types]] to make infiltrators minus the superhuman assassin part. Cheaper and effective, but less flexibility. In the [[Jaq Draco|Inquisitor novel]] written by Ian Watson, a Callidus assassin named Meh'Lindi can only transform into [[genestealers]] due to an experiment, meaning the drug's effectiveness may depend on the person that uses it. It also apparently has a very distinctive odour from prolonged use, which makes long term infiltrations difficult for the assassin without taking measures to disguise the smell. 

*'''The Chirurgeon''': Used by that [[Fabius Bile|Fabulous Bill]] after learning the trade from [[Urien Rakarth|the sickest of fucks]]. It is a part-sorcerous and part-technological device that acts like an unholy mix of a life-support device crossed with a set of surgeon's tools, constantly patching Mr. Fabulous' failing body up. The device is charged with warp energy and Fabius can use it on persons other than himself if he wants. Naturally, it has the typical consequences of jamming warp-based shit into your bloodstream. In a rather WAT move, it turns out the [https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Chirurgeon original Chirurgeon] became [[Daemon Engine|partly sentient,]] was able to reproduce, and its many offspring serve each Bile Clone as ably as the original. 

*'''Commorite Stimm-Rack''': Another variant of chirurgeon. Sick ass slurpy drug chemical rack things that comes in [[Mountain Dew|three different flavors]]. One of [[Lucius|Lucius's]] prized possessions after winning the contest of sickfuckery in the Dark Eldar arena and installed by the [[Fabius Bile|fabulous one]] himself.
**'''Laemon Green (Bylestim)''': Green blood of some lesser daemon with some wraithbone dust to go with it. Yummy!
**'''Tyranberry Red (Tyrphous)''': Fucking Tyranid blood. Harvested from their adrenal glands.
**'''Wych Cola (Serpentin)''': Drained from the blood of the Dark Eldar wyches, who do so much drugs, their blood can be considered a type of it.

*'''Combat Drugs''': Used by the [[Emperor's Children]] and the [[Dark Eldar]], particularly Wyches, to liven up the combat. Like all things associated with Chaos and Dark Eldar, can have a variety of useful effects, or go hilariously wrong.

===Common Drugs===
*'''[[Alcohol]] beverages''': Despite the coming of the Grimdark future, alcohol remains popular and widespread among humanity. Unlike foods which are now mostly processed spam mixed with xeno flesh, alcohol remains the same and comes with even more variants from different planet culture to another, even among xenos. Some can be very strong, so strong only the astartes, some xenos or other abhumans can drink it.
**'''Amasec''': A type of good ol' fashioned distilled booze. Ranges in quality from really good stuff that is favored by Guard and Naval Officers, the more flamboyant Inquisitors, Rogue Traders, nobles and the like, to cheap stuff good only for killing brain cells and degreasing engines (usually called ''Rotgut''). Usually implied to take the social position whisky or maybe brandy do in our day to day, or occasionally more exotic liquors like ''arrack'' (which can mean different things in different parts of the Orient, e.g. in Sri Lanka or Persia.) Definitely hard liquor though, and fairly ubiquitous.
**'''Real rotgut''': hope that the ethanol to promethium ratio is in your favor. The worst of the worst, distilled on a small scale and often with plenty of impurities, found in declasse establishments and holes in the wall in the underhives of Necromunda and similar, or improvised by Guardsman. 
**'''Tranq''': See above, and then slap on a numbing sensation that would be welcome to only the weariest of guardsmen.
**'''Dzira''': a particularly strong alcoholic brew from Medusa, per Knights-Errant Iron Priest, Ares Voitek, it’s a brew handed out by Medusan Clan Chiefs to mend bridges between brethren who have recent bad blood between them. It can also be synthesized with any spare ethanol based liquids such as Space craft maintenance fluids, and tasted just as bitterly strong. When handed out to the Knights-Errants with Rogal Dorn, it was strong enough to make Dorn twitch an eyebrow while all but the Space Wolves and White Scar members coughed while downing a shot. It was also impressive enough that Bror Tyrfingr of the Space Wolves was motivated to brew a stronger batch to make sure the Space Wolves weren’t seen as sissies next to the Iron Hands. Is notably absent from the Chapter culture after the Heresy, possibly due to their rather OTT stance on mortal frailty and / or anything vaguely fun or with flavour.
**'''[[Space Wolf|Fenrisian Ale (Mjød)]]''': A type of alcohol beverage from Fenris that is soooooo toxic it can even intoxicate an Astartes. Still does not stop the frigging Space Wolves from having drinking contests with it. Although the Astartes are unable to get drunk from any alcohol beverages of the Imperium due to their implanted kidney gene seeds, they can from this ale due to a very special toxin from a Fenrisian plant life that temporarily neutralises the Kidney implant of an Astartes. When Space Wolves offer other non-Space Wolf chapters their drink, they have to make sure to add some anti-toxin to the mix in order to not kill their <s>less manly cousins</s> {{Blam|+++LION FOR LIFE DOG FUCKERS!!!+++}} Understandably, a mortal drinking a few drops gets some major street cred, mostly because anyone who can drink that and not die has a seriously tough constitution.
**'''Sacra''': Tanith derived alcoholic drink, understandably rare since the planet got wiped. Inferred to be rough homebrewed spirit, probably similar to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poit%C3%ADn Poitín], given the Gaelic influences on the Tanith, although they traditionally served it warm.
**'''Fungus beer''': Orky beer. Nothing more, nothing less. Usually brewed by enterprising gretchin to sell to their masters. Whether it works on humans or is even actually beer in the sense of being a brewed ''alcoholic'' beverage (as opposed to something uniquely orky)  isn't totally clear. Note that since it's a fungus and so are orks, and orks are innately psychic, there may be sort of a spook like dynamic going on there, too.
**'''Lacrimosa''': Mentioned in the ''Angel Exterminatus'' novel. Said to be an exquisite wine bled by the [[Emperor's Children]], brewed from the tears of slaves. [[grimdark|With just one sip, the user could experience the suffering of a thousand mortals, and taste its flavor filled with pain and pleasure. It also has erotic and repugnant aromas]]. Those Slaaneshii sick fucks...
**'''Rahzvod''': Space vodka made for the [[Vostroyan Firstborn]]. It is a common distribution among their ration and its use during deployment is ubiquitous enough that even Commissars don't bat an eye when it's drunk.
*'''Cigar''': Why the fuck not? These candy sticks hanging in your mouth prove that you are the manliest of men in the grimdark future. By the 41st millennium, tobacco seems to have been one of the plants that died off when [[Earth|Terra]] [[Hive|went industrial]], and has been replaced with tabac or lho leaves. However, it's only available to the high ranking offcers, the rich and beautiful, and [[commissar|officers with big hats]]. Cigars are often used for celebrating victory, but [[Creed|this fucker]] smokes one all the time because he knows [[Just as planned|you have already lost]]. Also used surprisingly by Orks, though they probably fill theirs out with an inferior product like squig droppings or fungus cuttings or something like that.
*'''Barrage''': A super-roid combat drug that makes people as strong and tough as motherfucking Ogryns but wears off very quickly, leaving  muscles and tendons torn to shreds by overexertion.
*'''Blue Fire''': [[Dune|Spice]]. No, really: it gives you limited future-sight and a boost to mental capabilities but turns your eyes blue. The only difference is that it's inhaled rather than ingested.
*'''Concoction of the Phoenician''': A mysterious Emperor's Children's liquid drug that was filled inside a Laer skin pipes. Introduced in ''Angel Exterminatus'', It allows the user to open up their perception, finding answers of questions they've never asked for.
*'''De-Tox''': Not so much a drug as it is something to counteract them. Though it does halt any ongoing effects from drugs and poisons, it's also got some serious side-effects that can leave a person just as sick as the drugs they wanted to escape from.
*'''Frenzon''': A highly addictive mixture of Stimm, Slaught, Spur, and a few others that makes people fearless and crazy in combat. Once you are hooked on frenzon, you become virtually uncontrollable unless you can get a fix; the only way to kick the habit is to take anti-addiction chems.
*'''[[Rejuvenat|Juvenat]] Drugs''': Extend your lifespan. Available to [[High Lords of Terra|the rich and beautiful]] and others in power, usually [[Imperial Guard|Guard]] generals, churchmen, and nobles. Heavily implied to be [[Grimdark|made of children]]. Also depicted as being part of various surgical procedures to achieve the same effect. Their effect isn't indefinite as the treatment's start having diminishing returns after a while, although life can easily enough (with enough money and, ugh, babies) be extended past two centuries with women so modified often being described as still being beautiful but noticeably having had "work done." More recent fluff has elabourated on how they're produced; they can either be made in medical labs, although this is expensive and time consuming. The other, seemingly more common, way is to procure the necessary cell cultures from live specimens. On Hive Worlds, this usually means kidnapping youths and then [[Dark Eldar|draining them painfully for years at a time]]. The latter method is obviously illegal but given the demand for juvenat drugs, many medicae will turn a blind eye to the supply. 
**Funnily enough, there were certain xenos like the Adarnians, that were used as the materials for something akin to Juvenat drugs during the Crusade and Heresy, and the Imperium even deemed them under their protectorate for the sake of easy access, but...well, they got exploited to extinction by a bunch of greedy old bastards if ''[[Belisarius Cawl]]: The Great Work'' by Guy Haley is anything to go by.
*'''Kalma''': If you need to get a man stoned off his ass, this is your drug. Sometimes used by Astartes and the Mechanicum to keep unruly ship serfs in line.
*'''Lho-Stick''': Future version cigarettes. Lho is implied to be a tobacco or marijuana analogue depending on how PG-rated the authors are. Also considered to be the smaller, lesser version of cigar, often smoked by measly soldiers who, despite standard issue [[Imperial Guard|balls of steel]], are still bent over and railed by [[Administratum|an uncaring colossal behemoth that only sends them to die somewhere]] and only seek some form of release. It makes up by being as addictive as nicotine, and depending on which regiment you're in, you either get shot or given more of this stuff.  Go figure. There is at least one reference to lho being insufflated like snuff tobacco (in ''Legion'' by Dan Abnett, blink and you'll miss it), so at least in his works, it's tobacco, not pot.
*'''Mortis''': Puts you into a coma with suspended animation for a while, during which you look like a corpse, and also gives you a near-death experience trip. Cults of Death use it in their initiation rites, and spies use it to feign death.
*'''Obscura''': Drug introduced in [[Dan Abnett]]'s works, which spread to become the number one illegal drug of the [[grimdark]] future. Either smoked or injected, Obscura causes a pleasant dream-like sensation, but after the high is over leaves the user depressed and wanting more. A clear analogue to opioids.
*'''[[Recaf]]''': Grimdark era Coffee, or at least something caffeinated. Varies from fancy samovar brewed stuff served in thimble glasses to awful bivvie tin mugs served to the guard in the trenches with stimms poured on the top like a latte. It's unknown if they actually come from organic material like beans and leaves or is chemically reconstituted (the Mechanicum, it seems, prefer the latter method.) Most likely it is some sort of ersatz "coffee" (the Germans in WW2 had a number of substitutes made from various plants, beans, and nuts - acorn “coffee” is the most famous) with caffeine (or perhaps something a bit stronger) added chemically.
*'''Rose''': Overclocks all your senses to 11, giving you eagles' sight, dog's sense of smell, ability to read engraved text with a touch, and other extreme sensory feats. Unfortunately it also heightens the sense of pain. Most popular as a recreational drug for bored aristocrats and a gateway to many Slaaneshi cults. If you mix it up with other drugs or sex (or both) you'd probably die from sensory overload-- though many Slaaneshi cultists consider it an acceptable price to pay.
*'''Satrophine''': Distilled blood of [[Chaos Spawn|that thing which shall not be named]]. A powerful combat drug that boosts speed, awareness and strength and dulls pain. As you may imagine, if you overdo it you can turn into a Chaos Spawn faster than oh shitglbrAMGUMDGHOUMWRRR!
*'''Slam''': A gross combat drug made by grinding up the crystallized insides of man-sized insects, granting a remarkable boost to strength and reduced sensitivity to pain, but this drug causes permanent nerve damage in even tiny doses.
*'''Slaught''': A combat drug made of a combination of amphetamines and adrenal glands. Those who use it are said to be "On-slaught" (and ready to "slaught-er"), which is a mildly clever word play. It makes people much more aware and faster, with the unfortunate side-effect of 'roid-rage. [[Cult of the Redemption|The Redeemer]] calls it "'''S'''acred '''L'''ibation '''A'''nd '''U'''nguent which '''G'''ives '''H'''eart to the '''T'''errified".
*'''Spur''': generic name given for various stimulants that boost the nervous system and muscle reaction speeds. The effects are notoriously short lived and wear off after a few minutes, making it unreliable to depend on as a combat drug unless your supply is massive.
*'''Stimm''': Generic name for various combat drugs/painkillers for the 41st millennium. Always make sure your [[Power Armor]] has enough. Increases awareness and alertness while diminishing felt pain and possibly treating shock (like epinephrine/adrenaline) letting you go on fighting not conceding to your enemies that you're dead. There seem to be many kinds. Think the berserker pack from [[Doom]]. They're also used off the battlefield to keep people on their feet and working for long periods of time without sleep.
*'''Sweetmeats''': A [[Geneseed|progenoid]] roasted in sight of the space marine it was torn out of (probably while he's dying). Aside from being the epitome of wastefulness, with progenoids being about the most expensive things in the Galaxy, it's said to be so delicious everything else tastes like ash for the rest of your life and also gives you ''ability to regrow lost limbs'' somehow.
*'''Sweep''': Anti-addiction drug that is highly addictive itself, so it basically cures you from all other addictions by hooking you on itself. Its own effects are pretty much like heroin to the point it may actually be heroin under a new name in 40k.
*'''Topaz''': A social narcotic in Varangantua.
*'''Yellodes''': Also from Dan Abnett's works. A "mind expanding" drug (think psychedelics), sometimes used by heretics diving into the mindbending lore of the Warp to, like, ''understand'', man. Probably grimdark Ecstasy to spook's grimdark LSD/shrooms.

=== Warp Dust ===
[[Warp|Hell]]-cocaine. But only [[Kaldor Draigo]] and [[Matt Ward]] sniff it, because THEY MAKE IT HAPPEN. This is probably why [[Draigo]] believes he could just burn down [[nurgle|some nasty old man's garden]] or smash into the [[Tzeentch|fortress of impossible]]. <s>[[meme|Warp Dust, not even once.]]</s> [[Doomrider]] says you're a faggot.

=== The Companitas ===
<s>The drug cartel of the 40k</s> A cult of drug-using chaos heretics dedicated to Slaanesh. They used a drug that could induce a hysterical state in the user and could even bring the deceased back to life for short periods. Like all Slaanesh cult, they like to have fun by placing the corpses of the royal imperial citizen in rendering plants to burn the bodies to ash, then placed this ash in air-burst warheads and exploded them all over those cities on the world that remained loyal to the Imperium. Sadly, they were pwned by the [[Flesh Tearers]].