mood-altering

[ mood-awl-ter-ing ]

adjective

1. (especially of drugs) capable of changing one's emotional state.

Example Sentences

Dr. Griffiths, a distinguished psychopharmacologist and professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, spent decades studying the mechanisms of dependence on mood-altering drugs.

From New York Times

Processed foods might provoke compulsive behaviors that reinforce the need to consume more, but do they really have mood-altering effects, another criterion used to define an addiction?

From Scientific American

The fact that Americans are overprescribed mood-altering drugs and are addicted to social media and other technology contributes to this denial and disengagement with reality.

From Salon

In his opening essay, Dr. Gaylin wrote that despite the promise of mood-altering drugs to understand mental illness, addiction and other health problems, they aroused as much discomfort as they did satisfaction.

From New York Times

With opioid abuse wreaking havoc on the country, we were finally going to get to the root of the nation’s deadly obsession with mood-altering drugs.

From Washington Post