Experimental Drug "Caffeinol" Tested

dan.hunt writes "Two of my favorite things: Cafeine and Alcohol have been combined into a new medicine. 'The idea of mixing alcohol and caffeine was "serendipitous", Grotta told HealthScoutNews.' I am sure a lot of /. readers knew that Irish Coffee was good for you. I will mix two strong cups of coffee with one ounce or two of Irish Cream http://www.baileys.com/ and one ounce or two of Sambuca http://www.luxardo.it/ to get a taste for this medical research."

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combined into a new medicine?

[Tumbleweed]

Medicine. Riiiiight.

Drew Carey's already done this

[lightspawn]

Buzz beer: stay up late and get drunk all over again.

woah

[standsolid]

At first i looked at my watch

no... not april first

then i looked in my desk drawer

still haven't smoked my crack

wow! I can't wait to go to starbucks and see a new line of coffees... O'Reilly's special Blend ;p

Red Bull and And Vodka

[spencerogden]

I believe the original version of this was mixing Red Bull with vodka. A suprisingly good tasting drink. Just the thing to get the night started.

Congratulations!

[Telecommando]

They've invented Kahlua!

Again.

Best coding job I ever did

[OpMindFck]

was between about 3AM and 7AM on a Sunday morning with a project due Sunday night at midnight. I had been out drinking and was on my third cup of coffee back in my dorm room when I had the most joyous experience in my life. I wrote C code for 4 hours without compiling. Then, as I was getting ready for a power nap, I tried a compile. It worked. No syntax errors. Then I ran the sample data though. No errors. I was done. And it was all thanks to the miracle of caffeine mixed with about 8 shots of vodka. I got an A in 15- 213 that semester by using that same strategy right up to finals. Thanks Grey Goose!

I may be a horrible, pear shaped admin, but...

[Bearded Pear Shaped]

I don't need slashdot's help getting sh*t faced.

Wrong recipe ...

[ninewands]

Irish coffee, aka "God's Blessing" (see, Callahan's Cross-Time Salloon by Spider Robinson):

1 cup freshly-made Jamaica Blue Mountain
1.5 ounce Bushmill's Black Label Irish Whiskey

top with Whipped cream if you really feel motivated to gild the lily of perfection.

Two thoughts:

[Pathwalker]

1. Didn't I hear of some Canadian company making a caffinated beer years ago? ( I think I found it - Rethink Beer (warning - annoying flash site)).
2. When I was in grad school, and I needed to concentrate for an all nighter to whip the last bits of a project into shape for a demo in the morning, I would usually have a big mug full of of espresso on one side of my desk, and a bottle of scotch on the other. If I was feeling tired, I would sip from one, if I was too stressed out and twitching, I would sip from the other. It worked quite well in the short term, but really burned me out over the long term...

It's good to know that in the second case, had the stress caused a stroke, I might have had a little protection.

Re:Sounds crazy

[coryboehne]

Well, it almost makes sense.. I mean it is a medicine that treats a condition it causes :).. If you don't know what I mean, just go to a Denny's about the time the bars close... Every drunk in the house will be either a. Drinking Coffee, or b. puking up a combination of beer and coffee... So they obviously know something..

heh, psych! :)

My favourite quote

[SolemnDragon]

Grotta's colleague Roger Strong was aware of the association between moderate use of alcohol and reduced stroke damage, "so we started fooling around with combinations of it with other things."

So they tried it with... other things. For example:

Aspirin

leftover chinese food

electric shock

tomato juice with tabasco

tabasco by itself- who knows?

tic-tacs, because that was what they found in the desk drawer

zinc, thinking maybe they could cure the common cold AND a stroke at the same time...

I'm making this list up myself, for amusement, because frankly, i'd like to see more of exactly how they got paid to do this research, and what else they tried on people to figure it out. I think that researchers should be required to publish their initial ideas along with how they came upon the idea... "so, we were sitting around one night getting hammered, and he looks at me and says, you know what? I bet this could cause cancer. "

and i said, "we aren't testing on cancer, just on strokes!"

And he hands me the bottle and sez, "so i bet this shtuff could cure stroke damage," and he passes out on the floor. I wrote it on the floor in magic marker and when we came to and got cleaned up, well, we tried it out..."

seriously, on the migraine note, a lot of pain meds now include caffeine, because it really does change how things work. Me, i go straight for imitrex, which at $20 a pill is still a bargain, because if somebody were to walk up to me and tell me they'd make my migraine vanish for $20, i'd say pretty please. The caffeine and regular NSAID approach doesn't work any more, alas... Now if they'd just find that this cure works on migraines, we'd be in business.