Definition of "euphoriant" []

• A drug that tends to produce euphoria. (noun)

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• "Sharn found out that it was just a euphoriant in the food; without it, ALSC withdrawal could bring on deep depression."
• "The role of opioids as a euphoriant had been well established by Larry Stein and James Belluzzi at the University of California at Irvine.20 Furthermore, alcohol-craving behavior had been linked to deficiencies of the opioids."
• "Andrew K. S. Ho showed that morphine sharply reduces ethanol selection in mice genetically predisposed to prefer alcohol over water.27 The significance was that morphine fills the opiate receptor sites and blocks alcohol intake; and further, that in the presence of one euphoriant, another may be rejected."