MOOD-ALTERING


Meaning of MOOD-ALTERING in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

substance

All mood-altering substances or behaviours may be cross-addictive.

The mood-altering substances and behaviour are still continued because they still work: they still alter the mood.

The Fellowships have a primary end in themselves in providing the route to sustained abstinence from mood-altering substances and behaviours.

The causal connection between mood-altering substance or behaviour and the damaging consequences continues to be denied and the denial is intensified.

Ultimately this relationship with mood-altering substances or behaviour is the only relationship left.

It is this disorder of the human spirit that leads the sufferer to seek mood-altering substances or behaviours.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

All mood-altering substances or behaviours may be cross-addictive.

Cannabis, when smoked, has to be inhaled very deeply to get its mood-altering effects.

Furthermore, because alcohol and other mood-altering chemicals are cross-addictive, we shall probably always have drug addiction as well.

In this respect, being under the spell of a leader is like being the influence of a powerful mood-altering drug.

It follows that careful monitoring of patients for their susceptibility to depression before prescribing mood-altering drugs would be a wise precaution.

It is this disorder of the human spirit that leads the sufferer to seek mood-altering substances or behaviours.

Perhaps by making cannabis legal our society would imply progressive sanction to the use of any mood-altering drug.

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