In many ways it’s more difficult. With drug addiction you have the ability to quit cold turkey and avoid the stimulus, with food addiction you still are forced to partake to live. There are posisble things like completely cutting sugar, or switching to an incredibly regimented diet that can act similarly but…in the end food is a massive part of culture in a way even alcohol is not. I’m sure food issues are some of the hardest to deal with.

I don't disagree, and find it worth appreciating how blurry the actual lines of separation are between food and "drugs". Coffee/tea, Cheese, Chocolate, Nutmeg, sweets in general, they activate similar mechanisms and reward systems to "drugs".

The whole dogmatic war-on-drugs attitude creates this imaginary boundary around "food" which for many I suspect green-lights abuse of "food" because it's not "drugs".

It makes me wonder how much our societal obesity problems would change if the prevailing attitude towards drugs became more factual and nuanced. If people understood better that cocaine isn't as problematic as psilocybin in terms of addiction, maybe they'll also start thinking more critically about candy bars vs. oranges. Perhaps my optimism is showing.

We really need to study the physiological mechanisms that cause food addiction and pass regulations to address the issues.