@furgar remember that Christian Bale movie Equilibrium? The population was essentially forced to take a mind-altering drug daily to suppress their emotions. It was depicted as a terrifying and evil dystopian nightmare future.

This is somehow worse than that, in that if you don’t take pills to make you emotionally numb you probably won’t die. If you don’t take your immuno booster pills daily you run the risk of actual death since the drugs have permanently fucked your immune system

@Jackuu @furgar there was a dumb movie with Christopher Lambert with exactly that plot. In the future, there was a pandemic after which the survivors are forced to take some medicine daily. But it turns out that newborn children don’t need it if they’ve never taken it and the medicine is actually an addictive drug, while the virus is long gone on its own.

Can’t remember the name of the movie tho.

@newt @Jackuu @furgar
Stargate, but I have no idea where.
Mercenery of Gulaud was addicted to an imunity drug, so he had to obey his masters, since if he disobeyed, his suply would be cut and he would die in mere days.