Well, sugar actually is a pretty strong drug that you can OD on (sugar coma and all that). We joke about it, but there’s some truth to the idea that it can be a drug with a pretty strong impact in its highs and lows.
When my 4 month old granddaughter went in for minor surgery, they hooked her up to a sugar drip.
“As effective as morphine for babies,” they said.
I’m 75 years old and never knew that...LOL