Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mood-altering
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.
Usage examples of "mood-altering".
In another case where there were small digs on the same planets as colonies, the archeologist had himself become addicted to the mood-altering drug called "Paradise," and had made himself open to blackmail.
The mood-altering qualities of endocrine imbalances give us an important hint about the connection of the limbic system with states of mind.