Energy Drinks and Alcohol Pose a Risk

Recently, a rise on the creation of cocktails consisting of energy drinks with alcohol has been growing among college students. Though it is often thought of as yet another creative cocktail recipe, it also suggest the apparent stupidity of the mixers. One of the most popular recipes involve the mixture of Red Bull with an alcoholic beverage made in order to induce a mind-blowing feeling. If the call for road safety years ago was don’t mix drinking with driving, it’s slowly shifting to avoid cocktails with energy drinks. What makes energy drinks with alcohol that devious anyway?

Below are some guidelines to help you discern the true dangers of energy drinks with alcohol, so read on:

• Alcohol makes people depressed while energy drinks stimulate you. While you may be after a really funny mind trip, just you wait until you hit something or get hit while driving. What is even more dangerous is that your motor skills are impaired although your perception remains clear due to the caffeine. The dangers and risk of accidental injury or even death are increase fourfold in such a mental and physical state.
  
• Energy drinks themselves contain many additives and chemicals which can pose grave health risk, among them are: caffeine, ginseng, taurine, ephedrine, and other risky herbal additives. Due to lack of FDA regulations, companies can add large quantities of these ingredients without our knowing. The bad news is that such substances may not go well with alcohol. The effects of certain drugs, herbs, additives, and medications may prove lethal when mixed with alcohol, which is why mixing energy drinks with liquor is not advised.
  
• The unpredictability of the side-effects and dangers increase in knowing that each of us will have a different biological make-up, hence different adverse reactions. It may range from a slight itch, tingling, dizziness, or worse-a heart attack! Cardiopulmonary deaths have been reported as commonly caused by the energy drinks with alcohol cocktails often consumed at rave parties, according to the Science Daily magazine.
• Energy drinks with alcohol can be a trigger for alcoholic dependence later on. The addition can stem from the heightened feeling one gets and the irresistible taste of the cocktail. This depressant/stimulant effect is definitely addictive as more younger people practice mixing energy drinks with alcohol.
  

Energy drinks are still beyond the control of FDA regulations. This doesn’t mean that the general public should not consume as much as they want. Just make sure to avoid mixing your energy drink with alcohol. Also, remember that everything in excess would always have repercussions. Please, be careful.