It’s one addiction that won’t land you in court or an inpatient rehab. But sugar – as anyone who mainlines sweets can attest – can be just as habit-forming as cocaine.

Yet sugar is eight times more addictive than cocaine, and Americans are consuming 152 pounds of sugar a year — double what the Spanish eat! Most of it hidden in processed foods and sweetened drinks.

He says that refined sugar is similar to cocaine -- a white crystal extracted from sugar cane rather than coca leaves -- and that studies show it can be even more addictive than the recreational drug.

Eating sugar and drug abuse change the layout of our brain cells in much the same way. When a person consumes sugar, their brains release dopamine, just like when they consume cocaine.

However, in 2015, Dr James DiNicolantonio published a review into the dangers of sugar, telling told Here & Now: "When you look at animal studies comparing sugar to cocaine, even when you get the ...

Cocaine smuggled in rollerblades from South America to Wisconsin 00:32. ... after officials were surprised to find more than 4 tons of the drug stashed inside a shipment of sugar bound for Belgium.

Authorities in Paraguay found more than 4 tons of cocaine stashed inside a shipment of sugar bound for Belgium in the country's largest cocaine seizure, code-named "Operation Sweetness." ...

Officials this week confiscated more than 10 tons of cocaine seized from sugar and bananas in two South America drug busts and arrested at least five people in connection to the trafficking cases.

Officials this week confiscated more than 10 tons of cocaine seized from sugar and bananas in two South America drug busts and arrested at least five people in connection to the trafficking cases ...