research suggests that college students regularly consume energy drinks with high caffeine content have a significantly higher risk of developing alcohol dependence.
"We found that those who consumed energy drinks weekly were more likely to meet criteria for alcohol dependence," said lead author Amelia M. Arria, director of the Center for Development and Health of Young Adults in the department of family studies at the Faculty of Public Health, University of Maryland.
This means it is more likely that fans of energy drinks are "unable to stop drinking alcohol, despite a wealth of continually experience negative consequences as a result of consuming too much," he said.
Some students use those unregulated energy drinks to stay awake and study. Others with alcohol, which can cause a state of disrepair described as "awake drunk."
For the study, published online before the print edition February Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, Arria and her colleagues analyzed data collected by a survey of about 1,100 students last year from a U.S. public university large.
The researchers did not focus on beverages containing alcohol and caffeine Four Loko, some U.S. states. UU. banned due to increased hospitalizations from alcohol poisoning.
but should consider the possible relationship between regular consumption of energy drinks without alcohol containing high amounts of caffeine (50 to 500 milligrams per can) and patterns of drinking.
The authors asked participants for their drinking habits over the previous 12 months, and found that about 10 percent had taken energy drinks like Red Bull, over 52 days. These students were classified as drinkers high frequency. "
These high-frequency consumers of energy drinks they drank alcohol most often in last year that low-frequency drinkers (consuming energy drinks between one and 51 days per year). The high-frequency group reported 142 days of alcohol consumption, compared to 103 days for low-frequency group.
Compared with the low-frequency group, those taking high-frequency energy drinks got drunk at a younger age and consumed more alcohol per session, more than six drinks per day compared with fewer than five drinks a day.
After taking into account possible contributing factors, such as family history of alcohol and drug consumption, participation in a sorority or fraternity, risk behaviors, depression and behavior problems in children, the study authors found that consuming energy drinks on a weekly or daily " strong relationship "with alcohol dependence.
Although the study found a link between energy drinks and alcohol, no strong evidence of a relation of cause and effect.
"We believe that when you take energy drinks goes beyond the point of intoxication of alcohol and drinks because they are awake for longer, which leads to bad consequences, "said Arria.
Another possibility:" People with alcohol dependence resort to energy drinks to overcome the hangover, "he said." It can be that simple. But we need more research to find out. "
For now, we need public education efforts and regulations, he added.
Dr. Richard Zane, vice chairman of emergency medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, said the study results do not surprise him.
"First, the only thing that is important to know about these energy drinks is that it is substance," he said. "The fact that they are available in the '7 -11 'in a supermarket counter or somewhere not mean they are not a substance. And they are susceptible to abuse as any other substance."
"It is also important to know that most people who abuse a substance, so do the others, "said Zane, who is also associate professor of emergency medicine at the Harvard Medical School.
"So when you have drinks with a physiological effect that can make people use them as amphetamines or cocaine, not surprising that mixed with alcohol," he said. "Which, of course, is something people has been a long time. As used caffeine as a remedy for a hangover in a while. "
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