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General Category => Substance Abuse => Topic started by: Tru on December 19, 2020, 01:02:46 PM

Title: Movie drugs
Post by: Tru on December 19, 2020, 01:02:46 PM

I was watching Down a Dark Hall (2018) last night an wondered if miloprazale was a real drug. It's not, but lead me to this page.

Fictionalized drugs in movies and their real life equivalents.
http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/now/drugs/213903-fictional-drugs-in-film

Title: Re: Movie drugs
Post by: Thrash on December 19, 2020, 04:32:29 PM

Yeah, they use fictionalized drugs so people won't go and search them out to try them ....

Title: Re: Movie drugs
Post by: Tru on December 19, 2020, 09:30:29 PM

Not always though.

Title: Re: Movie drugs
Post by: Thrash on December 19, 2020, 11:35:18 PM

True ....
It's just a "general rule" if it's a fake drug name though ...

Title: Re: Movie drugs
Post by: Tru on December 20, 2020, 02:03:11 AM

So many new drug names all the time you don't know unless you investigate!

Title: Re: Movie drugs
Post by: Thrash on December 20, 2020, 09:54:19 AM

This is also true ...
... and then there's the "nicknames"
...... we'd be here for WEEKS if we tried to sort those out!

Title: Re: Movie drugs
Post by: Tru on December 20, 2020, 01:36:06 PM

I've been developing a bit of OCD about stopping a video to check on people places and things mentioned or seen in a show.

Title: Re: Movie drugs
Post by: Thrash on December 21, 2020, 06:35:40 PM

Hahahaha ....
Like "Hazzard County"?

Title: Re: Movie drugs
Post by: Tru on December 21, 2020, 10:33:39 PM

I haven't checked but I bet that's a real place.

Title: Re: Movie drugs
Post by: Thrash on December 21, 2020, 11:47:29 PM

Chickasaw County (right next to it in Ga) is ...