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 firm said it did not believe the ad claimed or implied that the beer had any therapeutic or mood-altering effects, nor that the ad suggested alcohol was essential or a priority in life.

From BBC

Dr. Griffiths, a distinguished psychopharmacologist and professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, spent decades studying the mechanisms of dependence on mood-altering drugs.

From New York Times

Processed foods might provoke compulsive behaviors that reinforce the need to consume more, but do they really have mood-altering effects, another criterion used to define an addiction?

From Scientific American

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

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