In the first-season eleventh episode "Detox", House admits he's addicted to Vicodin but says he doesn't have a problem because the pills "let me do my job, and they take away my ache". His dependancy has led his colleagues Cuddy and Dr. James Wilson to encourage him to go to drug rehabilitation several instances. When he has no access to Vicodin or experiences unusually intense ache, he often self-medicates with different narcotic analgesics corresponding to morphine, oxycodone, and methadone. House additionally frequently drinks liquor when he isn't on medical responsibility and classifies himself as a "big drinker". Toward the top…