Sentences with phrase «like addictive drugs»

Gluten stimulates the same receptors in the brain that addictive drugs stimulate and is associated with psychological withdrawal symptoms, just like any addictive drugs.

Much like addictive drugs, power uses these ready - made reward circuitries, producing extreme pleasure.

Religion is like a addictive drug that gives you a temporary high but often ends with disastrous consequences.

It's also been noted by psychiatrists that sugar acts like an addictive drug on the brain.

JUNK food may seem like an addictive drug because it is.

Gluteomorphins are opiate - like compounds that can make gluten a bit like addictive drug.

Studies are increasingly showing that junk food can act on the brain like an addictive drug.

Not exact matches

One key factor contributing to the trend is the major spike in fatalities related to drugs, including prescription painkillers containing addictive opioids (like oxycodone and fentanyl) and illegal drugs like heroin; another is the second straight year that gun deaths have risen after 15 years of remaining relatively stable.

The most addictive drugs, like prescription opioids, are held in a so - called vault and packaged in specially sealed plastic bags by background - checked workers under the gaze of several cameras.

This experimental drug is worth a deeper dive right now because the acute pain market is massive (more than $ 11 billion in just the U.S.), and there's a desperate need for viable alternatives to highly addictive drugs like morphine.

For those who like Starbucks, keep in mind they are selling an addictive drug at an exorbitant price.

I think All the People Using Legal Marijuana — without the need to come in contact with people who also trade in Narcotics and Meth and Drugs that are ALMOST AS ADDICTIVE as other DANGEROUS Drugs like Alcohol and Tobacco — Will Be Jut FINE.

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.

Some people argue that sugar affects the brain like a drug and can be addictive to certain individuals.

Others are suddenly having to go cold turkey off highly addictive drugs, like crack or heroin.

She said many vets with PTSD are prescribed strong and addictive drugs like Valium, and Ativan.

She says many vets with PTSD are prescribed strong and addictive drugs like Valium and Ativan.

At a Senate press briefing Tuesday morning, heads of the Senate Joint Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Addiction said that it was time to bolster law enforcement officials» ability to arrest and prosecute drug dealers that put highly addictive heroin and even more dangerous opioids like fentanyl and carfentanyl on the street, after years of legislation aimed at prevention, treatment and insurance coverage.

It is exactly during puberty that substances like drugs of abuse — alcohol, cannabis, etc. — may induce the most destructive and also persistent effects on the still developing brain, which may in some cases even result in neuropsychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia or addictive disorders.

The type of learning that alcohol and other addictive drugs may promote is best described as «subconscious» reward - based conditioning, much like the classic example of Pavlov's dog.

Dopamine - blocking medications could target not only addictive drugs such as cocaine, but also compulsive behaviors like gambling or eating.

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?»

Substance use disorders of highly addictive opioids like heroin, fentanyl and oxycodone continue to skyrocket in the U.S. Intravenous opioid use disorders are a major contributor to the drug overdoses that are the leading cause of injury death in the United States, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.

12 Can't Get Enough of Your Love: Dopamine is produced in the ventral tegmental area of the brain, the same region affected by addictive drugs like cocaine.

Opioids, like morphine and tramadol, are highly addictive and the NHS have recently raised concerns about prescription of these drugs, due to opioid overdoses more than doubling in the last decade.

«The researchers controlled for a host of psycho - social factors, which greatly reduced the strength of these associations — this suggests that psycho - social factors (things like history of drug problems, parental loss (divorce or death), poor family environment, low self - esteem, social deviance, personality disorders) play an important role in mood and addictive disorders.

«The real challenge is to tweak the addictive effect of drugs like nicotine or other psychostimulants without totally crushing the person's desire to pursue healthy behavior.»

About 28 million people try marijuana each year, and only between 8 % and 10 % of users exhibit addictive behavior like drug seeking, Cunningham says.

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.

Although diet soda clearly isn't as addictive as a drug like nicotine, experts say the rituals that surround diet soda and the artificial sweeteners it contains can make some people psychologically — and even physically — dependent on it in ways that mimic more serious addictions.

Just five years ago, a «kitchen sink» approach like Robbins might have been pooh - poohed by pain - management types, who would have been quick to prescribe hard - core, addictive drugs like oxycontin for such a serious condition.

This genetic evolutionary survival mechanism is one of the reasons why sugar is like a drug to us and becomes so addictive.

So they have an addictive component like alcohol and drugs.

SSRI antidepressant drugs like Effexor ™ and Pristiq ™ are even worse; they are chemically addictive with horrendous withdrawal effects.

«Overall, this research has revealed that sugar and sweet reward can not only be comparable to addictive drugs like cocaine but can even be more rewarding and attractive,» he says.

Pathogenic bacteria thrive and multiply like crazy when you add any form of sugar into your system; and since we know that sugar is as addictive of a substance as crack (opioid drugs), then you might want to take note of this next fact:

Since the identical brain «reward pathways» are used by both types of drugs, they can be equally addictive and also may cause side effects like memory loss, hip fractures, impaired thinking, and dizziness.

Back problems are almost epidemic in our society; in fact, chronic back pain lies at the root of the escalating opioid crisis, which has turned into a major public health issue in the U.S. Not surprisingly, the American College of Physicians now recommends that doctors recommend self - care techniques like yoga and Tai Chi for back pain sufferers before prescribing addictive drugs.

SSRI drugs like Lexepro ™, Effexor ™ and Pristiq ™ are even worse; they are chemically addictive with horrendous withdrawal effects.

After all, the sensations that come from cardio are addictive sensations just like an alcoholic or drug addict experiences... yet our culture likes to make it okay because it fits into our work hard, play hard ideas.

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 FDA is beefing up its warning label requirements for addictive opioid drugs like Vicodin and Percocet.

The addiction of this game is like the effects of a drug its so highly addictive that it can turn people into Fallout zombies.

Just like the drug the show portrays, this is an incredibly addictive series that will have you craving season two when it starts up March 8.

Concerned parents and diligent drug addiction researchers (like me this week) searching for help on illegal drug use or addictive prescriptions are likely to stumble across the «Rat Park» example.

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.

Like any highly addictive drug, it perfectly skirts the line between frustration and «just one more.»

But aren't many drugs, like heroin, said to be extremely addictive?

I haven't heard of a single pharmacist making a fuss over dispensing erectile dysfunction drugs like Viagra or highly addictive narcotics such as OxyContin.