Drugs & Medication

Narcotics

Medicine

Analgine

Analgine is the standard 25th century painkiller, a synthetic opiate with fewer side effects than morphine and little physiological risk of addiction. One dose gives High Pain Threshold and Drowsy afflictions for 4 hours. Can be consumed as a pill (takes 30 minutes to take effect) or injection (takes effect instantly).

Hypercoagulin

Hypercoagulin is a rapid blood clotting drug used to immediately stop bleeding. When injected or applied via bandage, bleeding stops in 1d+4 seconds. For each additional injection dose within 24 hours, roll against HT at -1 per doubling of dosage; on a failure, internal blood clots cause a stroke or heart attack. While occasionally used for murder, modern forensic technology can identify hypercoagulin in the system.

Ursaline

Ursaline is a cocktail of nutrients, bone density enhancers, and muscle fatigue inhibitors. Humans who grow up in low-gravity environments must take regular injections (weekly on Luna, Io, and Pluto, monthly on Mars) to avoid growing up in such an atrophied state that they become totally incapable of survival in higher gravity, while humans who grew up under regular gravity on Earth, a space station, or Venus must take weekly injections or exercise 2 hours a day if they plan a long stay in these locations to avoid muscle and bone degradation from the lack of gravity.