Drug: a substance taken for its narcotic or stimulant effects or a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body.Food: any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink, or that plants absorb, in order to maintain life and growth.
At first glimpse these two don’t seem to have much in common. The only similarity being they are both put into the body but when we look a little deeper we see this is not the case.
I’m sure we have all binged on chocolate after a break up or gone out for an icecream after a performance. So at this point is food to maintain life and growth or is it taken for a narcotic or stimulant effect. I can guarantee the first scenario given is to produce a narcotic effect, but are people doing this more than once in a while until it becomes an addiction. I can personally testify that this often happens.
Another part of the definition of drug is “has a psychological effect.” How many times have we tasted food and thought, “This is really yummy,” or “I shouldn't be eating this.” If this isn’t a psychological effect I don’t know what is.We have all seen a child on a sugar rush is this any different than a teenager on a drug
high?
Solely from the definition of food we do not see a direct link to drugs but when we add what we have twisted the purpose of food to become they most definitely match up.
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