They didn't resolve the drug addiction in "Jones", though. There are mentions of it peppered through the rest of the series.
3x02 "In Name and Blood": Hotch mentions "that another one of my team members may have an unchecked drug addiction that I haven't reported" to Prentiss in the list of things she could have told Strauss about. One of the deleted scenes had Morgan and Reid talking (very similar to the bathroom scene in "With Friends Like These") and edging around the drug conversation. When Hotch comes back to the case, he looks at Reid and says, "I need your head in this." and Reid gives a quiet, "I know." It's not just about Gideon, there.
3x15 "A Higher Power": The scene where Reid and Prentiss are talking and Reid realizes that the "suicide notes" are amends letters. He knows too much about the meetings, and there's a moment where Prentiss gives him a look, and he looks away.
3x16 "Elephant's Memory": Obviously, we have Reid attending Narcotics Anonymous meetings because he's still dealing with cravings. It's not something that went away for him, and he's still struggling with it. There's another mention of Hotch knowing what was going on here, too. ("I think you need to go finish that movie.")
3x19 "Tabula Rasa": This deals more with Reid's PTSD than his actual addiction, but the two are very closely intertwined, so I'm listing it. There's a scene near the end where Reid and Hotch talk about how closure is not a linear thing--there's not a "Okay, well, I'm totally fine with this now" moment after the bad guy is dead or in jail. It's very pointedly both about the victim's father and Reid himself.
4x20 "Conflicted": Again with Reid's PTSD, and there's another moment where he's talking to Adam about drugs--"I have headaches." / "Then get a prescription."--it's very short, but it's one of the parallels drawn between the two in that episode.
4x24 "Amplification": This is one of the big ones. He flat out specifically refuses narcotics despite having a very, very painful death ahead of him via Anthrax. If he wasn't still struggling with this off-screen, he wouldn't have been so adamant about not having narcotics. Because Reid (and the writers) realize that a drug addiction isn't something you beat and just wave goodbye to--it will always be there, and there will always be that chance of relapse. Being given narcotics in the hospital could have jump-started that for him.
There are probably several moments that I'm missing right now, as well. I'm not going into season five because I haven't rewatched it, or season six, because I mentioned that in a previous comment.
They let the headaches go unresolved; I completely agree with that. But the drug addiction and PTSD? That didn't just go away over night. And idk who mentioned this earlier, but there was a comment about wanting a detox episode--but I honestly think that's missing the point, too. It doesn't end with detox, either. It's never going to be totally over for Reid--that's always going to be there under the surface.
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They didn't resolve the drug addiction in "Jones", though. There are mentions of it peppered through the rest of the series.
3x02 "In Name and Blood": Hotch mentions "that another one of my team members may have an unchecked drug addiction that I haven't reported" to Prentiss in the list of things she could have told Strauss about. One of the deleted scenes had Morgan and Reid talking (very similar to the bathroom scene in "With Friends Like These") and edging around the drug conversation. When Hotch comes back to the case, he looks at Reid and says, "I need your head in this." and Reid gives a quiet, "I know." It's not just about Gideon, there.
3x15 "A Higher Power": The scene where Reid and Prentiss are talking and Reid realizes that the "suicide notes" are amends letters. He knows too much about the meetings, and there's a moment where Prentiss gives him a look, and he looks away.
3x16 "Elephant's Memory": Obviously, we have Reid attending Narcotics Anonymous meetings because he's still dealing with cravings. It's not something that went away for him, and he's still struggling with it. There's another mention of Hotch knowing what was going on here, too. ("I think you need to go finish that movie.")
3x19 "Tabula Rasa": This deals more with Reid's PTSD than his actual addiction, but the two are very closely intertwined, so I'm listing it. There's a scene near the end where Reid and Hotch talk about how closure is not a linear thing--there's not a "Okay, well, I'm totally fine with this now" moment after the bad guy is dead or in jail. It's very pointedly both about the victim's father and Reid himself.
4x20 "Conflicted": Again with Reid's PTSD, and there's another moment where he's talking to Adam about drugs--"I have headaches." / "Then get a prescription."--it's very short, but it's one of the parallels drawn between the two in that episode.
4x24 "Amplification": This is one of the big ones. He flat out specifically refuses narcotics despite having a very, very painful death ahead of him via Anthrax. If he wasn't still struggling with this off-screen, he wouldn't have been so adamant about not having narcotics. Because Reid (and the writers) realize that a drug addiction isn't something you beat and just wave goodbye to--it will always be there, and there will always be that chance of relapse. Being given narcotics in the hospital could have jump-started that for him.
There are probably several moments that I'm missing right now, as well. I'm not going into season five because I haven't rewatched it, or season six, because I mentioned that in a previous comment.
They let the headaches go unresolved; I completely agree with that. But the drug addiction and PTSD? That didn't just go away over night. And idk who mentioned this earlier, but there was a comment about wanting a detox episode--but I honestly think that's missing the point, too. It doesn't end with detox, either. It's never going to be totally over for Reid--that's always going to be there under the surface.