The first thing that popped into my mind was a Tintin story - where Captain Haddock finds he can no longer bear the taste of whiskey. The professor had given him something akin to this.
But how about if that fiction was itself based on life?
Ibogaine, a hallucinogen from Africa, has been a folk remedy (with some medical evidence) for addiction for over a hundred years, and (appropriate for a Tintin reference) 1st came to European attention via French and Belgian explorers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_and_the_Picaros
Life is stranger than ...