0 A mind-altering drug has a strong influence on a person's mental state, causing feelings of extreme happiness and making people consider things in an unusual way.
Furthermore, aside from being powerful emetics, the plant's rhizomes are a mind-altering agent.
I submit most strongly, however, that taking mind-altering substances does do harm to other people as well as to society as a whole.
Some people see advertising and marketing as these arch-deceivers—mind-altering substances on which more money is spent than on all the drugs produced by the pharmaceutical industry put together.
The spiritual significance and the sense of wonder would have been amplified into a mind-altering and life-changing experience through the use of hallucinogenic plants.
Most jails and prisons have a staff psychiatrist that goes in daily and gives dosages of various and sundry mind-altering drugs to the inmates.
In a treatment setting, sobriety is the achieved goal of independence from consuming or craving mind-altering substances.
Like the dopamine hypothesis, the development of the glutamate hypothesis developed from the observed effects of mind-altering drugs.
At his draft hearing, he honestly informed interviewers that his intention in life was to sample every mind-altering substance in existence.