Are Oreos more addicting than cocaine/morphine?

You know, I've discussed this before. Oreos are sweet. Sweet stimulates sensory organs. Cocaine is a narcotic... it does not stimulate sensory organs. Dopamine is released faster with food, and does not last nearly as long. Obviously, a rat is going to choose sweet food over a narcotic substance because it is their instinct to eat food and sweet makes it more attractive. It is not, however, their instinct to snort cocaine.

I'm sorry but I feel like this study is just dumb! Besides, rats have a completely different physiology than humans anyway.

Do you mean "addictive"?

Oh and no.

Thankyou!

I think they are.

In the grocery store, I walk right past the cocaine without a second thought. It's the Oreo's that call my name.

:laugh: "I walk right past the cocaine without a second thought." :laugh:

LOL, I saw this on the news this morning, too. I feel like this is a symptom of the times...we're always looking to blame the addiction rather than take responsibility for our own choices...face palms...

Exactly. Always trying to point a finger rather than look in the mirror. :noway:

LOL ESPECIALLY when they are in a McFlurry! I can't even eat them by themselves, but I'll eat them in a McFlurry.

Double stuffed oreos are more addicting than ANYTHING.

Hate to say this but if you have a addictiver personality such as I, yes sugar is addicting I cannot eat just one oreo. My wife bought a package of cookies once and in one sitting I ate the whole fricking package. Call it what you will but for myself all jokes aside I cannot have just one or two ore three the whole package is a start then I want to go to the store to get another. Some things I do not buy too often Cookies and Ice cream are at the top of the list. If I could eat in moderation I would not be here.

People are way to quick to attribute compulsion or simple lack of will power to addiction IMO.

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.

same way millions of people responsibly enjoy drinking alcohol and are completely functional... and are not alcoholics- or even FUNCTIONAL alcoholics.

Some years back, my best friend would go through two bottles of wine per day (the really big bottles), and no one ever really noticed much unless they spent a great deal of time with her. She only drinks socially now that she has a kid, but yeah, you just never know what is going on in someone's life.

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.

same way millions of people responsibly enjoy drinking alcohol and are completely functional... and are not alcoholics- or even FUNCTIONAL alcoholics.

I didn't say anything about being functional while on it.

I asked about withdrawal. Alcohol withdrawal is a thing. Sugar withdrawal is not.

Oh for gods sake, the rats went for the tastier food - that doesn't make them addictive.

hmmm oreos or rice cakes - what a hard choice :noway:

Ridiculous conclusion is ridiculous.

I have a debiltating rice cake addiction.

Are they Ranch or Cheddar rice cakes? I'd take them over Oreos.

if you eat enough sugar regularly- you'll go through some sort of withdrawal- physical or mental.

What is "enough"?

Mr White's got the blue stuff yo!

Yummy! I am referring to the picture of Jesse (guy on the left). I don't give a crap about the oreos. lol.

Me too. I'm not a fan of oreos anyway.

People are way to quick to attribute compulsion or simple lack of will power to addiction IMO.

Addiction actually is compulsion. Lack of will power begins the process towards addiction, but it is not addiction, in and of itself.

Maybe things have changed since I worked in the field (was over 10 years ago so entirely possible) but there is/was a fine but distinct line between compulsion and addiction.

Agree with you about lack of will power though and essentially that last part is what I was trying to convey...albeit less eloquently than you :drinker:

You could be right. I have never worked in the psychology field. I have had some classes in psychology, and I'm a recovering addict, so I can't pretend to have a full understanding of the differences. But as I understand it, that by nature, compulsive behaviors and addiction both have a similar impact on the release of dopamine.

I struggle a lot with the comparison between drug addiction and food addiction. For the most part, what people cite as food addiction really is just a lack of will power and individuals are using the term "food addiction" as an excuse for their behavior. As an addict who lost my home, my children, my marriage, and my family, individuals who compare their lack of will power to addiction are almost offensive. I took the stance for a long time that food addiction doesn't exist. But I have met individuals on this website who have taken the lack of will power with food to the point of addiction, severely endangering their lives, losing their mobility and simultaneously their livelihood, and putting their families through hell. I can easily see how their stories mimic my own.

Food addiction is real. But physiologically and biochemically, it takes a lot to become addicted to food. Far more, than it takes to become addicted to narcotics.

As has been said by others before me, if that rat isn't willing to give out handies for an Oreo, then its not addicted. LOL!