Apparently mixing large amounts of stimulants with equally large amounts of depressants is not good for you. Huh? Who knew? How am I supposed to cut a rug until the wee hours of the morning if I don’t drink a few delicious double Red Bull and vodkas?
Mixing alcohol with energy drinks such as Red Bull is like ‘mixing cocaine with heroin’, a drugs expert had claimed.
Don Serratt, founder of British drug treatment centre Life Works, said mixing extreme quantities of the stimulant caffeine with the depressant alchol was ‘a very dangerous cocktail’. He was responding to a study which found young adults were twice as likely to be hurt and require medical attention and twice as likely to travel with a drunk driver if they had the cocktail, than those who did not mix their drinks.
In a typical drinking session, they drank up to 36 per cent more than the other students, and they also reported twice as many episodes of weekly drunkenness. Mixing caffeine with alcohol was like “getting into a car and stepping on the gas pedal and the brake at the same time”, said Dr O’Brien.
How do these guys get paid to perform these studies? Does someone just say, “Cancer and heart disease suck but we have got to get to the bottom of this Red Bull and vodka thing.”
Original Story: DailyMail.co.uk
