Is Sugar a Drug?

Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: Here’s a sweet idea: Subscribe! Tweet this video ⇒ Share on FB ⇒ ↓ More info and sources below ↓ Want to wear your love for science? We’ve got merch: American sugar consumption: #25512 Avena, Nicole M., Pedro Rada, and Bartley G. Hoebel. “Evidence for sugar addiction: behavioral and neurochemical effects of intermittent, excessive sugar intake.“ Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 32.1 (2008): 20-39. Breslin, Paul AS. “An evolutionary perspective on food and human taste.“Current Biology 23.9 (2013): R409-R418. Goodman, Jarid, and Mark G. Packard. “Memory systems and the addicted brain.“ Frontiers in psychiatry 7 (2016