Risky Cocktail Combos – Energy Drinks and Alcohol

College-going crowds who indulge in drinking and habituated to swilling alcoholic and energy drink concoctions are thrice more prone to getting squashed out as compared to those drinking solely alcoholic drinks.

What is even more appalling is that those who imbibed such energy mélange are four folds more prone to attempting drunken drinking, a finding by investigators from Univ. of Florida.

Researchers explicated that on blending alcoholic drinks along with energy drinks could have a deceptive action on the brain making those who consume it feel they are sober when actually the contrary holds true.

Researchers noted that nearly twenty-eight percent of college-goers indulged in this form of concoction drinking.

For gathering data, the research team queried nearly eight hundred clients who left bars located at college revelry areas in-between ten prior midnight to three a.m. in the morning. They interrogated them regarding their drinking and regarding if they were intent on driving. Breath analysers were then used by the researchers for checking alcohol levels in their breath.

The outcomes were sombre.

• 6.5 percent had consumed cocktail based on alcohol and energy drinks.
• 6.6 percent had consumed alcoholic and energy drinks, however not as a concoction.
• Eighty-six percent of them had solely consumed alcohol.
• An average reading of the breath analysing tests was 0.109 that was above the officially permitted border of 0.8. The breath alcohol levels averaged at 0.081 in case of those who consumed solely alcohol.
• Those people who merged alcoholic and energy drinks were noted to be drinking for lengthier time spans.
• Clients who drank energy concoctions were observed to leave bars far tardier than those who consumed alcoholic drinks.

Researchers further expounded that mostly students drank energy drinks as they were weary and did not commence till late and intended on having ample energy. They drank these prior to them heading out. There was also a set of students that mixed alcoholic and energy drinks – commonly one being blending vodka and Red Bull.

As this happens so commonly that investigators have dubbed it AMED (alcohol mixed with energy drinks).

Study investigators state that those consuming energy drinks might consume more and wrongly evaluate their capacities as caffeine lowers sleepiness that is sensed by more intoxicated individuals.

A potentially dangerous condition, mostly illustrated as ‘widely wakeful yet inebriated’.

Individuals mostly consider that the stimulating outcome of caffeine neutralizes the depressant outcome of alcoholic drinks, however is a falsity as stimulants essentially exacerbate intoxication.

The study also noted that there has been an exponential surge in the intake of high-caffeine containing energy drinks in the markets ever since Red Bull was unveiled during 1997.