Narcan

Add new drug “narcan” to the inventory. Effect is to immediately reduce negative effects of drug use (ie. Reduced stats) but comes with a 24 hour cooldown. This would allow players to get back to their top end stats for fights on little notice, but cost heavily in cool down.

Wonderful idea!

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What type of item would this be? Medical or Booster?

I think it would have to work like a drug with an exception that would be allowed even while on another drug. Otherwise it would have to be medical.

Medical would probably make more sense tbh since its the medical profession that uses it in the event of a drug overdose (if I remember correctly). The issue I see with this is that depending on your maximum cooldown limit you would be able to use up to 2 of these per day negating half of the Xanax cooldown effect making it a bit too OP.

Seems like a good idea but a bit too op imo. Like the idea tho R+

Could be an action like revive which you get from another player.

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Nice try, but its an opioid blocker, and in Torn opioids increase your stats... Xanax is a benzo not an opioid...

Ched already has rehab in place for this

doubtful he would add something that does the same thing but not require the travel and cost in Switz

but never hurts to try

But the rehab doesn't lower the drug cooldown, right?

I like the idea and it would be great to have R+

IRL has zero to do with torn. Xanax doesn’t give anyone energy to fight or go to the gym. I’m riffing of the “reverse effect” concept of Narcan.

Only problem I see is that Narcan itself is a drug.
It’s called Naloxone and it’s only useful for opium based overdoses, so maybe could be used to reduce med timer if you’d used morphine.


Or could reduce the med timer caused by morphine.


That’s the only uses that makes sense to me.

And Xanax doesn’t give energy for the gym, and Vicodin doesn’t make you stronger IRL. Not really relevant.

Xanax does give you energy in a sense, it’s parasympathetic so once the effects wear some users do feel energised.

And Vicodin acts as a strong analgesic so it could have some benefits in a fight.


Ched posted on another suggestion a while ago that the effects need to mirror the IRL effects so saying it’s irrelevant is simply incorrect.

Yes, Xanax has a calming affect. However, it is extremely addictive and users often feel groggy without it and become energized with it. Xanax giving you energy is a good sign you are extremely addicted to it... hence why we have rehab in game for the Xanax use.


Vicodin is a pain reliever/blocker, so boosting your stats up a bit can at least make sense. Opiates in general can cause several symptoms of aggression in many users.


I work in a field where I deal with drug addiction and counseling on a daily basis. Within this next year I will be training people on the use of Narcan and distributing it to help save the lives of loved ones addicted to opiates. With damn near all street heroin being laced with fentanyl and carfentanyl these days Narcan sometimes isn’t enough. Users may need multiple doses and the paramedics often rely on shots as opposed to the nasal administrations.

In relation to the original post, the effects of the drugs in game and irl are not exactly mirrored but they are close enough to make sense.

very impressed with your work btw, you work in a rehab center?

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