That's not the part I was contending. Yes he wants skills, he should want skills. Why endure the risk of getting drugged again?
He could simply act in a manner that makes him useful enough to not have to drug, they only did that because he was so pathetic.
He was still getting fucked for xp bonuses before being in a cell so what is the advantage of being drugged? If you don't develop the resistance it's over, you blew chance 2.