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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Inez Hull" data-source="post: 591516" data-attributes="member: 5114">If you want to tailor withdrawal effect and periods to each drug, look first at the way the drug works when taken. Withdrawal symptoms are simply the result of the body becoming used to the substance being there and adjusting its balance in accordance. When the drug is no longer there the body is out of balance in the opposite direction to how the drug usually throws it. For example, common effects of heroin use: reduction of pain, drowsiness, constipation. Common withdrawal effects of heroin: cramps and discomfort, sleeplessness, diarrhoea.Also usually the period taken to get a drug out of your system is proportional to the time it takes to become dependant. i.e. quick development of dependance = quick withdrawal and detox and vice versa. By working backwards this way you can make the withdrawal effects match the addiction effects.Perhaps you could reflect the fact that for some people 'once an addict always an addict' by having a certain threshold that once crossed sees no going back. This may be a certain point past where dependance sets in and be determined by the user themself rather than the drug?</blockquote>