Highly Caffeinated Drinks May Affect Brain: Study

Drinking highly caffeinated beverages mixed with alcohol triggers changes in the adolescent brain which are similar to taking cocaine, suggests a study. Energy drinks contain as much as 10 times the caffeine as soda and are often marketed to adolescents. The results published in the journal Alcohol showed that adolescent mice given high-caffeine energy drinks were not more likely than a control group to drink more alcohol as adults. But when those high levels of caffeine were mixed with alcohol and given to adolescent mice, they showed physical and neurochemical…

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