Are Oreos addictive?

Of course they are.

In a study at Connecticut College, researchers compared the brain activity of rats given Oreos vs. that of rats given IV cocaine. According to the researchers, “rats formed an equally strong association between the pleasurable effects of eating Oreos and a specific environment as they did between cocaine or morphine and a specific environment. [The Researchers] also found that eating cookies activated more neurons in the brain’s ‘pleasure center’ than exposure to drugs of abuse.”

I guess we should not be surprised. Everybody knows if you give a mouse a cookie…