Fiction:Luciferium

Luciferium, also known as The Devil's Bargain, is a rare, powerful, expensive, highly addictive and extremely dangerous drug found scattered across the. Luciferium's main use is to save one's life with a dramatic blood filtration improvement, though it also causes immense improvements in other functions.

Luciferium has to be taken every six days, otherwise the mechanites in Luciferium will lose cohesion, and a violent and possible fatal withdrawal will begin. Luciferium withdrawal is known for its particularly painful symptoms, and being its main reason of outlaw. Typical withdrawal symptoms include very frequent berserk mental states, acute pain, and impaired consciousness. Advanced withdrawal symptoms results in an agonising death in an average period of ten days after withdrawal starts.

Trivia
Luciferium is based on the drug of the same name from the game Rimworld.