Sentences with phrase «addictive drugs do»

Sweets and fats actually trigger the same pleasure centers in the brain that addictive drugs do.

Not exact matches

These devices dispense a drug called buprenorphine — itself an opioid, but one that doesn't produce the sort of euphoric and addictive high that more powerful painkillers such as OxyContin and morphine do.

Marijuana doesn't have the same addictive effects as other drugs, but the possibility remains that, as its cost rises, users will find their thrill (or chill) elsewhere.

If we don't look to heaven, bend the knee and pray to the living God, we will cling to visions in which eschatological destruction, hijacked planes and addictive drugs are our basis for understanding our deepest needs.

They may have minor anxiety or low social skills but sometimes the exposure to new technology in which they're flooded with sexual images or sexual text stories, or the opportunity to be sexual in ways that they never could have imagined, sometimes the opportunity by itself can be addictive like we saw with crack cocaine many years ago, so people got addicted to crack cocaine who did not have a typical profile, just the exposure to the drug was enough to flood the brain and get people hooked in a very short period of time.

get real yourself IM, we are so overtaxed and underserved and another tax on cigarettes won't do anything but make poor saps who are addicted to the most addictive drug of all time pay more and feel more miserable, or they will buy bootleg cigarettes.

One of them said that there is a reason that drinking alcohol, doing drugs and going into debt are all addictive.

The drugs currently used to treat chronic pain — aspirin and morphine along with other opiates — don't work very well and are often addictive.

We know that cocaine is a powerful and addictive drug and an important question remains: does cocaine mess up this process so that when cocaine users are off the drug they feel like other people have more negative emotions?»

What's needed is a better drug that can relieve pain as well as or better than opioids do but without being as addictive or prone to abuse.

Not only do many of the packaged foods we eat contain large amounts of sugar, but studies have shown sugar to have similar addictive qualities to that of opiate drugs.

Eating sugary foods like chocolate excites your appetite and activates the same neurotransmitters that prompt the brain's pleasure state — in a similar way to what addictive drugs like heroin do.

When you're intuitive and don't know it, you may try to tune out by drinking too much alcohol or caffeine, overeating, smoking, using drugs, or indulging in other addictive behaviors that disconnect you from your intuition.

Physical exercise may not be a drug but it does possess the addictive nature and traits of a powerful pharmacologic agent.

Moreover, the natural painkillers are always better than the pharmaceutical drugs, because they are never addictive, nor do they induce liver damage.

In fact, some of the more prominent animal studies show that sugar is eight times more addictive than cocaine: one in particular went on to show that mice react to Oreo cookies with the same addictive behavior as they do with specific drugs.

You have chronic pain and don't want to use pharmaceutical drugs such as ibuprofen, acetaminophen, or highly addictive opioids to manage it forever.

Considering the fact that these drugs are effective for only a short time, then become so addictive they can be pure torture to get off, do you really want to risk developing Alzheimer's in exchange for a short period of time anxiety - free?

Your insomnia, for example, isn't due to an Ambien deficiency, but a conventional doctor doesn't have the time, the resources or the training to educate you and support you in addressing the multifactorial reasons you can't sleep, so you're given a drug like Ambien, which is addictive and has multiple problematic side effects.

I don't think most people realize that sugar can be addictive like a drug and it does such bad things to your body and skin.

The show doesn't single out any of these as a primary thread, instead showing how all of their fates are interconnected as the threat of highly addictive illegal drugs continues on its cyclical life cycle.

It's like drugs; smoke marjuana in huge amounts and it's addictive and bad for you, but take it occasionally and in moderation and it does little harm, in fact it does less harm that alcohol.

Perhaps we can prohibit industry altogether and require scientists, environmentalist, etc. to do the farming, create the drugs and craft the addictive public craves.

It's an addictive stimulant drug that operates in the brain the same way amphetamines, cocaine and heroin do (although caffeine is much milder than those drugs).»

Others still, try to avoid confronting the pain by drinking, doing drugs and / or engaging in other potentially addictive and potentially self - destructive behavior.