addiction: cold turkey

This term probably originated in reference to the piloerection or "goose flesh" which is part of the opioid Withdrawal syndrome, but may refer to abrupt discontinuation of any drug after establishment of physiologic dependence and without detoxification.

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A Scanner Darkly Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr., and Rory Cochrane 2006

Confessions of a Porn Addict Spencer Rice, Mark Breslin, Lindsey Connell 2008
The Man with the Golden Arm Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Eleanor Parker, Arnold Stang 1955