Addiction

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For the addiction mechanism in *Fallout 76*, see Addiction (Fallout 76).
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**Addiction** is a group of negative effects acquired from repeated substance use. It represents a dependency to a substance, or activity, meaning that one's body (or mind) is in need of a regular dose in order to avoid withdrawal symptoms.

## Overview

* Addiction can happen from using too many chems. An addict suffers withdrawal symptoms that can cause ill effects when a drug wears off. Many substances in the *Fallout* games are addictive. Each chem has a chance of addiction. One of the most addictive chems is Jet.
* For *Fallout 1* and *Fallout 2*, withdrawal effects occur after becoming addicted and going for some amount of time without using that chem. For non-Jet addictions, addiction lasts seven days from the onset of the withdrawal effects (nine days of non-use), while Jet addiction can only be cured with the Jet antidote.
* Certain NPCs have addictions, not just the player character.

## Types of addiction

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## *Fallout and Fallout 2*

Selecting the Chem Resistant trait results in a 50% resistance to the addictive effect of individual chems, while the Chem Reliant trait doubles it, but with faster recovery. Chems which normally have a 10% addiction rate will be reduced to a 5% rate. If the trait is taken, however, chems will only last half as long.

## *Fallout Tactics*

Unlike *Fallout* and *Fallout 2*, chems do not have an addiction delay, instead immediately applying the effect after the chem's duration has expired. The Psychotic perk reduces the withdrawal effects from Psycho, while the Chem Resistant and Chem Reliant traits behave as they do in the previous games.

Alcohol addiction is present in Tactics, but is completely cut: all beverages that could provide it instead have zero addiction chance and no penalties set up, instead giving an unseen Drunk status for 1 minute. Happy Pies were also set up to be addictive, however the effect was left disabled in the final game with a chance of 0%. While Mutie has an addiction, it will not indicate the player is currently addicted outside of the stat detriment due to no indicator flags being set up for it. Given it shares the same effect and duration as RadAway, this may be an unintended bug.

## *Fallout 3*

In *Fallout 3*, addiction is permanent. It can, however, be cured for a price in caps by visiting a doctor (like the one in Megaton). Owning a house in either Megaton or Tenpenny Tower enables no-cost addiction removal if the My First Laboratory house improvement is installed. Also, the healing archways in *Mothership Zeta* include removing addictions as part of their healing effects.

Usage Monitor
In addition to standard addiction chance, certain items have an additional tracker value which builds up with each subsequent use of a substance. Internally, this effect is referred to as the "Usage Monitor Effect," or "UMON." Each use of an item adds its UMON value to the total UMON value and remains a part of it until its specified time limit elapses, at which point it is removed from the current running total. The accumulated value of 75 seems to equate to an additional 1% chance (added on top of any existing addiction chance), whereas a value of 175 seems to be equivalent to a 100% chance.

Items not listed in this table are not addictive in *Fallout 3*; this includes Rad-X, RadAway, and some other substances. Risk is a base chance of addiction per use, and only applies to alcohol items in *Fallout 3*. UMON is an accumulating chance of addiction. See Usage Monitor for a detailed explanation. Duration is the length of time required to pass without consuming the drug for the accumulated UMON value to be reduced.

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## *Fallout: New Vegas*

New drugs and addiction-causing substances are found in the Mojave Wasteland. Addiction is permanent unless seen to by a doctor. Fixer will remove the player character's addictions permanently, the only drawback being the application of a temporary "nausea" debuff. With *Old World Blues*, the Sink Auto-Doc cures addictions for free as part of the basic physical exam. The Logan's Loophole trait prevents addiction entirely at the cost of limiting the Courier to level 30. Perks in *Fallout: New Vegas* such as Chem Resistant, Brainless and Old World Gourmet reduce addiction chance.

### Bugs

* Template:Platforms Addictions in effect at the conclusion of the add-on *Dead Money* may become incurable.
* Template:Platforms Fixer can permanently remove addictions due to a scripting error.
* Template:Platforms Ant nectar addiction used to be incurable due to a bug, but this was fixed in *Fallout: New Vegas* patch 1.2.0.31x. The console command Template:Console will immediately remove the addiction on the PC version.

## *Fallout 4*

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In *Fallout 4*, addictions can be viewed on the STAT page of the Pip-Boy by choosing *Show Effects*. Repeated use of a substance within a short period of time may lead to the player developing an addiction.Template:Citation needed

* Using an addictive substance for the first time within an hourTemplate:Citation needed will never result in an addiction. On average, it takes around five repeated uses in order to develop an addiction.
* Addiction withdrawal will impact the player cosmetically, such as giving them a slightly emaciated appearance (though this is less pronounced if large or muscular body types were selected during character creation).Template:Citation needed
* The Chem Resistant and Party Girl Party Boy perks can render the player immune to specific addictions.
* The Junkie's legendary effect increases weapon damage for each addiction negatively affecting the player.
* Addiction can be cured either by visiting a doctor or by using certain aid items such as:
	+ Addictol - Widely available from medics or merchants.
	+ Radscorpion egg omelette - Craftable at a cooking station.
	+ Refreshing beverage - Craftable at a chemistry station.

¹ - **Alcohol:** Beer, Bobrov's Best moonshine, bourbon, rum, vodka, whiskey, wine, Gwinnett ale, Gwinnett brew, Gwinnett lager, Gwinnett pale, Gwinnett pilsner, Gwinnett stout and all ice cold variations.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chems.txt

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