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Caffeine Addicts Get No Additional Perk, Only a Return To Baseline
Dthief writes "Bristol University researchers found that coffee drinkers develop a tolerance to both the anxiety-producing and the stimulating effects of caffeine, meaning that it only brings them back to baseline levels of alertness, not above them. 'Although frequent consumers feel alerted by caffeine, especially by their morning tea, coffee, or other caffeine-containing drink, evidence suggests that this is actually merely the reversal of the fatiguing effects of acute caffeine withdrawal,' wrote the scientists, led by Peter Rogers of Bristol's department of experimental psychology."
There is another stimulating effect of caffeine that the article does not address.
Caffeine is a diuretic.
I've lost all my marbles except one & It's fun to test angular & centripetal acceleration in my skull
I believe it's called 'homeostasis.'
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
as a caffeine addict in the uk, I can definitely say that we suffer from caffeine withdrawal symptoms here. At least, I do.
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Hard to prove a negative, but for a drug, caffeine has been remarkably safe.
(Appropriate Heinlein quote "Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal".
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Adderall is speed (amphetamine/dextroamphetamine), not meth. Meth is sold medically under the brand name Desoxyn but prescription is rare.
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How much soda were you drinking at one time?
From http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/caffeine/an01211
generic brewed coffee has (on the low end) 95 mg of caffeine in 8 oz. (200 mg on the high end)
Mountain dew has 54 mg for 12 oz. (Vault has 71 mg, but Mt. Dew is "well known" as having high caffeine, and besides Vault is the highest in the list shown on that page.)
So if you drank a lot of soda, over the course of the day you'd likely get more caffeine than one cup of coffee a day.. But IMHO, do typical coffee drinkers drink only one cup a day? I don't think so.
They did that. From the press release:
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In common parlance all stimulants that are not cocaine and don't have hallucinogenic effects are referred to as "speed". Examples include amphetamine, dextroamphetamine, methamphetamine, cathinone, methcathinone, methylphenidate, and even modafinil.
"Meth" is generally reserved for the easily smoked pure crystals of methamphetamine.
Not having coffee results in the same amount of wakefulness, only without the money spent on coffee.
But without the joy of starting the morning with a rich, complex, and delicious brew. When you consider how much flavor you get out of it, a bag of coffee beans is really inexpensive. You could spend $5 on a bar of gourmet chocolate or a bit of fancy cheese and it will be gone in a few days. Spend the same $5 on a half pound of coffee beans and it will last for 2 weeks.
There's really no downside to being addicted to something that's so cheap and plentiful. It's low in calories, inexpensive, and really fucking delicious. Why quit?
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Interesting, especially since that, for me, exercise always wakes me up far more and longer than some stimulating drink. Very helpful when I am overtired for work one morning and I choose to bike to work.