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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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by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
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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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...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
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!
gotta get sober somehow
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?
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."
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
It's called the American Dream.
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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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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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.
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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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.
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%
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?
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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
Bouncing her off the ceiling? She's got a sex trapeze? Lucky bastard.
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Glad you found something to help curb your drinking! I hope you keep making progress and get to where you want to be.
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.
Be careful. Those are gateway drinks. You'll be sucking cocks for Irish coffee before you know it.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
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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