Are Oreos more addicting than cocaine/morphine?

I've never done cocaine and only had morphine for gall bladder surgery.....but i can only imagine Oreos taste better, don't cost as much, and you get to keep the memory from eating them..plus you can pass Oreos around without going to jail, lol...so Oreos for the win!

Ummm... k, just gonna point something out; activating the pleasure center of the brain is not the same as an addiction. Making someone feel good is not an addiction. Addictions boil down to not being able to function without the thing you're addicted to. Needing on the same level you need air. It will trump food. It will trump sex. It will trump shelter, it will trump safety, it will take every single one of your hierarchy of needs and replace it. a physical addiction can kill you with withdraw; the physical effects are that pronounced. They don't just feel bad, they don't just suck. The stress from not having the drug overtaxes the body and it dies.

Oreos do not replace any of the hierarchy of needs. They are food, and not even a food that the biggest glutton can eat exclusively, they'll want other food eventually. No one gives up a home for an oreo, or any other sugary treat. No one sells their damn children to random street thugs to get money for oreos. If someone doesn't have an oreo or something sugary, they're fine; at worst they are a bit cranky, maybe jittery if they just inhaled a whole ****ton of pixie sticks. No one dies from lack of oreos.

Lots of things make people feel good. People want to do the thing that feels good. That is not an addiction. People are happier when they get the thing or get to do the thing that makes them happy. That is not an addiction. Things that make you feel good, whether drugs or cookies or exercise or kicking *kitten* in a video game, light up the same pleasure pathways. Making someone feel good, lighting up the pleasure centers, is not the same thing as addicting someone. For the love of all that is holy, just stop pretending otherwise.

I never let a woman take advantage of me in a club's bathroom for an 8 ball of Oreos.

Absolutely! Sugary food is just as addictive as any drug. My passion was buttercream frosted cakes and cupcakes. I'd go to Sam's club and for $11.00 I'd buy a frosted cake surrounded by 10 cupcakes. By the end of the nite, it's gone.
Once I abandoned diet plans and started to live by my one ingredient rule, if it has more than one ingredient I don't buy it or eat it, the weight came off and has stayed off. It makes a huge difference.
Food is fuel, nothing more nothing less. Sugar "screws" with that perception just like drugs "screw" your perception of reality.
Just my opinion, I could be wrong.

Absolutely! Sugary food is just as addictive as any drug. My passion was buttercream frosted cakes and cupcakes. I'd go to Sam's club and for $11.00 I'd buy a frosted cake surrounded by 10 cupcakes. By the end of the nite, it's gone.
Once I abandoned diet plans and started to live by my one ingredient rule, if it has more than one ingredient I don't buy it or eat it, the weight came off and has stayed off. It makes a huge difference.
Food is fuel, nothing more nothing less. Sugar "screws" with that perception just like drugs "screw" your perception of reality.
Just my opinion, I could be wrong.

A sugar cube might screw with your perception of reality.....if had a few drops of LSD on it.

Definitely wrong.

Ummm... k, just gonna point something out; activating the pleasure center of the brain is not the same as an addiction. Making someone feel good is not an addiction. Addictions boil down to not being able to function without the thing you're addicted to.

That's absolutely not true at all. Stop making up some definition of addiction that you came up with from watching lots of after school specials. That's the kind of crap that makes even the worst addicts think they're not addicted.

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Pretty sure it has nothing to do specifically with Oreos and EVERYTHING to do with SUGAR......

If sugar is addictive, how do you explain the fact that millions or billions of people can eat it occasionally and not have any withdrawal symptoms when they don't eat any?

Sugar is not addictive. Some people might display compulsive eating behaviors, and may have a preference for sugary foods, but that doesn't mean it's addictive.

Buddy is a recovering Oreo addict.

Is that's what Buddy's deal is? It all makes sense now.

Ya, buddy was my sponsor.

What a ridiculous comparison.

That study didn't show any such thing.

What it did demonstrate, however, is that rats make better choices than do human junkies.

This exactly! :drinker:

Only if they are putting cocaine into the Oreos! I do have a cookie addiction but I've yet to find a 12 step program in my area. I can't tell you how many girl scouts I've robbed at gun point when they've got the goods. Someone help me!

(I'm a neuroscientist who has worked with a rat model of cocaine addiction and relapse.)

Rats will work harder for sugar or similar (chocolate, saccharin) than for cocaine. We have an ongoing joke that rats like chocolate better than cocaine, but it's actually true to the point that it screws up our studies if someone leaves chocolate pellets in the training boxes when we're trying to study cocaine self-administration. It's funny that some of you think that this means that rats make better choices than humans! As if rats are aware that "drugs are bad"?

The physical withdrawal from some drugs (especially heroin/morphine) is much worse than any physical effects of quitting sugar, which is what a lot of you are getting at in your comments, but sugar does have a higher reward value in that animals will work harder for it and will prefer it to various drugs of abuse when given a choice.

Those of you who are saying that heroin addicts do extreme things to get it and people don't do that to get sugar-sugar is legal, cheap, and everywhere. Not a fair comparison.

The one-liners in this thread are GOLD!