A week of mood-altering substances, sleep, and mutual har- assment was all right.

Food has become the most recent addition to the growing list of mood-altering substances we use to make ourselves feel better when we're sad, lonely or bored.

Today, food is the safest mood-altering substance around - a cultural comfort zone that crosses over to cosmetics.

When he was young and in bed, Web would hear his stepfather's footsteps overhead as the man sought out his mood-altering substances.

It is this disorder of the human spirit that leads the sufferer to seek mood-altering substances or behaviours.

Ultimately this relationship with mood-altering substances or behaviour is the only relationship left.

This does not mean that total abstinence from all potentially mood-altering substances and behaviours is necessary before one can even begin to experience any recovery.

"We started to realize," he said, "that what we were dealing with was mood-altering substances."

It includes bloody violence, foul language, inhalation of mood-altering substances and nudity.

I well remember how I used to relish the instant hit of mood-altering substances, beginning with alcohol.