Food Fantasies of Incarcerated Drug Users

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Abstract
In a 1966 survey of food preference associations to narcotics, 47 incarcerated male addicts'' actual as well as fantasied oral behavior was studied. A significant preference was expressed for liquid and solid sweets in both the actual and fantasied experience during periods of abstinence. Retrospective, anecdotal reports indicate that the subjects'' food preferences are pschologically determined and are chiefly related to infantile components in their personality make-up. The preference for sweets has the quality of a craving, and the substances consumed are thought of as yielding pleasurable effects resembling those of the drug. Infantile hunger apparently is the prototype of the adult''s morbid craving. Food preferences reflect his type of early psychosexual need.

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