lt is never my intention to discredit someone's lived experience. However when it comes to sugar "addiction" the research is clear: it doesn't exist. At least not in the vast majority of the population who feels "hooked" on it. What likely contributes to that feeling of urgency or "out of control-ness" that some of us feel around sweets is likely a result of chronic over-restriction. Sugar is safe for human consumption and always has been. Even in it's concentrated forms. Some may choose to avoid it, other's may find it more "addictive" than others. But the fear-mongering and popular idea that it is "as addictive as cocaine" is simply a lie based on the neuroscience we have to date. 

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