mood-altering

American  

[mood-awl-ter-ing] / ˈmudˌɔl tər ɪŋ /

adjective

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

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Example Sentences

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

“Gambling is the only mood-altering thing that has hope involved,” said Scott Anderson, a problem gambling specialist in the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services in Ohio, where sports betting is set to debut in January.

From New York Times

There were still love songs on “Revolver” — the cozily devotional close-harmony ballad “Here, There and Everywhere,” the fanfaring “Got to Get You Into My Life” — but they shared the album with the more ambiguous introspection of “I’m Only Sleeping” and “I Want to Tell You,” with the sarcastic praise of the mood-altering “Doctor Robert,” and with the chiming put-downs of “And Your Bird Can Sing.”

From New York Times