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Energy Drinks May Trigger Future Substance Use, Says Study (medscape.com)
New research suggests persistent consumption of energy drinks may predispose young adults to substance use. "Investigators, led by Amelia M. Arria, PhD, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, found that college students who regularly drink highly caffeinated energy drinks were at increased risk for later use of alcohol, cocaine, or prescription stimulants," reports Medscape. From the report: The research included students enrolled in an ongoing longitudinal study that began in 2004 at a large public university. The analysis included 1099 participants (54% women; 72% non-Hispanic white) who completed at least one annual assessment in which patterns of energy drink consumption were assessed. In interviews, participants were asked which energy drinks they had consumed, and how often, in the past year. They were categorized into three patterns of use: Frequent (52 or more days); Occasional (12 - 51 days); Infrequent (1 - 11 days). The investigators found that sensation seeking, conduct problems, and behavioral dysregulation were all positively associated with a higher probability of energy drink consumption, with the nonuse group having the lowest and the persistent group the highest risk scores. The study was published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
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It would surprise me if the relation was anything else than social. The same social groups that drink energy drinks also use more drugs. If there is a hard reason for this, my first guess would be to look at the income.
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So you're telling us people who use stimulating drugs are more likely to use drugs than other people? Who would've thought??
I smoked weed first and drank energy drinks second.
I can see now what triggered my drinking...
Correlation causation. Correlation causation. Correlation causation. The original article acknowledges this and it does not reach that conclusion. Yet, the title reads "energy drinks MAY trigger future substance use". By the same logic I guess we can also say "eating vegetables may trigger schizophrenia" or "eating hamburgers may trigger a healthy lifestyle" or "doing drugs may trigger a happy and fruitful life" or "staring at the sun may trigger improved gaming skills". Those are all true statements, aren't they?
People who use stimulants are likely to use stimulants.
Where do I apply for money for such studies? I'm asking for a friend...
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I'll often spend late nights reading articles or studying some subject (like neural nets), then realize that I spent too long and I'm too tired to think clearly. Energy drink to the rescue...it's definitely not healthy.
Another one of these half-blind statistical studies? You'd have thought people would have wised up to this blatant clickbait years ago but apparently this type of stuff still keeps science news moving on a slow news day. This type of context-free "studies" should have fallen to the wayside decades ago when people thought drinking caused lung cancer because of similar correlation, caused by heavy drinkers also being smokers more often than the average person.
Cool kids drink energy drinks, and they drink alcohol and they do party drugs. So conversely drinking energy drinks and alcohol and doing drugs makes you one of the cool kids, right? Only you'll never be one of the cool kids, because frankly you're just an imitating loser, only now you're also an addict, and a point in a statistic which has no basis in reality, and which is created by people who never experienced being one of the cool kids, or one of the addicts. Or possible was one of the addicts at one point, but got better and had their opinion of the cool kids turn sour. So now they're after the least prickly of the three - can't chase down the drugs, that doesn't work, and can't chase down the alcohol, that doesn't work either - DEATH TO ENERGY DRINKS!
The investigators found that sensation seeking, conduct problems, and behavioral dysregulation were all positively associated with a higher probability of energy drink consumption
So what they're saying is the textbook definition douchebag drinks a lot of energy drinks. No surprise with that finding.
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So people who habitually seek out a stimulate are more likely to also be the the same people who go on to seek out other stimulates you say?
People who waste money on shit later go on to waste money on other shit.
How many of these people either work, study, or work and study to the point they're often tired and/or sleep deprived and use energy drinks as a crutch to keep going?
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
I thought drug use was ok and fast becoming the norm since marijuana legalization?
Studies have shown that will power appears to be a limited resource, and may potentially be topped up by sugar consumption.
https://en.wikipedia.org
If this is true, this suggests these people are regularly running low on will power, which then goes on to fail and they become addicted. This builds on the existing addiction model that suggests it happens to people rather than by them, caused by other problems in their lives.
http://kurzgesagt.org
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My older brother has an addictive personality. He chugs Red Bull and cigarettes in equal measure.
I hate energy drinks. Diggusting. Having said that, this study is another one of those "look at the study!" pieces of garbage.
I'd love to see a study done at some University about how people with an increased desire for a high intake of sugary products on a regular basis have a higher tendency toward substance abuse. How about that one?
ZOMG - Redbull and Rockstar are gateway drugs that ultimately lead to heroin abuse. Quick, add that to the list of illegal substances! Think of the children.
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Their is probably a correlation between drinking soda and drug use to. You've proven you will put anything in your pie-hole.
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Correlation does not equal causation. I have ADHD. I only recently learned (in my 30s) that people who are NOT medicated for ADHD are significantly more likely to develop a substance abuse problem (I am an alcoholic). It's the complete opposite of when I was a kid (I was always told that if I should avoid being medicated because alcoholism runs in the family). Most likely, there are enough people self-medicating for SOMETHING to cause a correlation between future substance use/abuse (and caffeine is great self-medication for ADHD). I am medicated now, and it makes not drinking alcohol much easier. I'm not searching for substances to even me out (I drink a lot less, smoke less pot and drink less coffee, the three substances I used in large amounts before). I would be careful claiming causation here.
There's a particularly nasty case of ADHD on one of my parents family's, on the other multigenerational alcoholism.
It's as if the two families were in competition for which side can screw their lives up the most. Knowing this from an early age I've always been careful to avoid ending up in any kind of dependency situation. I'll keep alcohol consumption limited to 2 or 3 drinks, and refuse any non-prescription drug, heck I even avoid painkillers.
Personally I've noticed a real sensitivity to things as simple as sugar messing with my moods. I can have a soda or juice and a short time later "What the heck am I saying??" Yep, there was corn syrup in that.
So definitely, I'm the people in the article, who can't even have an energy drink without increasing their chance for ending up in heated arguments, lack of impulse control and general sketchy behavior.
At least I've never been arrested.
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It's time to put coffee, tea, soda/energy drinks into the same category as marijuana.
Or we could put marijuana into the same category as coffee, tea, soda/energy drinks.
Or we can do nothing (most likely).
Am I the only one here that thinks that "non-hispanic white" is a bizarre classification?
Is a hispanic white a different race than non-hispanic white? Both have the same genetic background after all.
How are the genes from a white person that grew up in Montevideo Uruguay any different than the ones of a white person that grew up in Minnesota?
News at 11.
This study also shows that post secondary studies lead to stimulant abuse.
The lesson - Don't stay in school kids, you might end up becoming a crack smoking researcher who decides to post "studies" that don't provide any actual proof.
Tobacco and caffeine seem to be rather significant gateway drugs. Obviously, correlation is precisely equal to causation, and their prevalence has nothing to do with the correlation.
From what I've seen of the users of energy drinks many of them are already abusing drugs, caffeine and whatever else is in those drinks.
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It's almost as if substance abuse isn't about the specific substance, whether it be caffeine, alcohol, marijuana or heroin, but rather is all about the abuse and the behaviors surrounding it. As if even were those substances totally eliminated off the face of the Earth, substance abusers would find something else to abuse.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12...
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Pot
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I see the pattern, but I believe we should focus on root cause. I think we should ban use of all liquids. It's clear to me that banning all liquids is guaranteed to eliminate the risk of drug use.
That's sort of like saying coffe leads to heroin. The only things that are missing nowadays is information withheld in the name of profit, and good parenting. Ironically, 'helicoptering' and trying to keep your kids from hating you (they will sometimes if you are doing your job right) is an extreme form of neglect. Kids are not likely to moderate themselves or pull values out of thin air. Also, how can you know something is toxic if it isn't possible to educate one's self with limited information? Pretty tired of blaming everyone but the people responsible, and it isn't corporations or inert substances or objects. Most behavior, even adaptive behavior, is learned, it isn't instinct. A baby will happily drink anti-freeze if you let them.
The study equally suggests that kids predisposed to abuse drugs start with the most readily accessible, like energy drinks.
Anyone that actually knows anything about addiction knows that it's built-in from the git-go. IT isn't "triggered." It's "realized."
I'll bet that if you balanced the survey, you'll find addicts prefer using energy drinks, because they act like a "cheap drug."
That means that the test is already weighted for results out of the norm.
This kind of garbage "science" appears all over the place, when it comes to addiction.
It's really that simple.
I've been a heavy drinker of energy drinks for over 15 years, I've never done hard drugs, and I'm in really good shape and health.
Go shove your study up your ass.
I also used Jack3d - before it was banned
I also drank Joose / Four Loko / Sparks - before they were neutered and/or banned
For the love of God please stop banning products I buy / love / enjoy.
Correlated with future substance abuse- okay.
TRIGGERS?
only way you can know that is if you pick a random sample of the population and give them all energy drinks and see if that population has a higher level of substance abuse than the general population.
you can't base a damn thing on a group that self selected to take energy drinks.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
Before I met her, my wife was a Coke (Coke-Cola) addict. In college she started the day with a Coke, had one for lunch and supper, then another in the evening. She reported being wired all day and most of the night. By the time I met her, she had figured out what was wrong and had dried out. I thought she exaggerated the effect but at a party she had one social drink of Coke, that night she was bouncing off the walls and ceiling until 5 am. Caffeine has extreme effects on some people.
Drugs affect people differently. Some people can quit tobacco or cocaine w/o any problem. Others struggle to do so w/o success (and are looked down on for their "weakness".)
>Energy Drinks May Trigger Future Substance Use
then again, they may not.
Most "highly caffienated drinks" can't hold a candle to espresso coffee, and even "regular" coffee contains more caffeine for the same amount of liquid.
And that's using the lower-end quantities of caffeine found in brewed coffee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Those "highly caffienated drinks" are made to strict, regulated rules, regulations and recipes.
Which are created in such a way to match or be lower than amounts of caffeine "found in nature" and which has been proven to be non-harmful to most humans.
I.e. They are made to contain the same or lesser amount of caffeine as the same amount of coffee.
For safety reasons, they mostly contain lower-end rather than the average values.
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Study finds ever energy drink consumer tried water before. 100%
Future Substance Use May Choose Energy Drinks
Water is wet.
Duh.
Substance abuse begets substance abuse. Who woulda thunk it.
How can we encourage this behavior more?
We need to sell more energy drinks.
Or, alternatively, some people have biology susceptible to substance abuse (or are trying to self medicate) and start with things that legally give them minor mood alteration (coffee, sugar, chocolate, energy drinks, etc.) and eventually graduate to illicit drugs?
If you disagree, please post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like
The summary clearly states correlation, not cause and effect.
Seems like a couple times a year shitty 'studies' like this get into the news, but they never talk about coffee, now do they? Or No-Doz, which you can buy at any grocery store, and nobody is going to question you when you buy a bottle of that, now will they? No-Doz is 200mg of caffeine per pill. You take 5 of them at once, you can land yourself in the Emergency Room. I also never see them talking about how a 20 ounce Mocha Frappacino with 4 extra shots from Starbucks should be banned or regulated, even though that's pretty goddamned close to an 'energy drink', with all that caffeine and sugar. But again, that's coffee, so it's untouchable, right? Did you all know, you can buy coffee that's so high in caffeine, that a 16 ounce mug of it would send the average person to the hospital? Just like heroin addicts that get stuff that's too pure; they overdose on it. But that's coffee, so it's exempt from any such discussions about caffeine.
Double standards
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Opposite of "sensation seeking" would be "sensation avoiding". Wouldn't it? Perhaps "sensation-indifferent". Or maybe "numbness seeking".
When did "sensation seeking" become a symptom of a mental disorder?
I've noticed that a large portion of street litter seems to be energy drink containers. When I left an old sofa out for the garbage man to pick up, some people came by in the middle of the night and threw the cushions all over the alley and left a bunch of energy drink cans lying around. I have a hunch this is all related. Can't quite explain why. Maybe people who like that stuff are constantly looking for stimulation, and littering provides that because it's a little bit naughty.
The corps selling this stuff know exactly what they are doing. Get your customer hooked and you have a customer for life.
Caffeine, nicotine, sugar/hfcs, the original coke with cocaine, etc... It's an endless cycle of sociopaths who will sell anything for a profit.
I don't need a study to tell me that people who like to use substances will eventually use other. more potent substances. What are these people paid for again? To do useless studies?
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