Research literature on the question of whether sugar is addictive and thus a nutritional variant on a drug of abuse is surprisingly sparse.

糖是否会使人上瘾，从而成为一种滥用药物的营养变体，关于这一问题的研究少得可怜。

The VTA is the reward-processing and motivation hub of the brain, firing when you do things like eat a sweet treat, quench your thirst, or in more extreme cases, take drugs of abuse.

VTA 是大脑的奖励处理和激励中心，当您做一些事情时会触发， 例如吃甜食、解渴， 或者在更极端的情况下， 服用滥用药物。

After looking at a bunch of data, both with animals and humans, researchers said that there are substantial parallels between sugar and drugs of abuse, from both a behavioral standpoint and one of brain neurochemistry.

在查看了一系列动物和人类数据后，研究人员表示，从行为角度和大脑神经化学角度来看，糖和滥用药物之间存在大量相似之处。