I’ve read a summary of a study that found that students drank 8.6 alcoholic drinks per session IF they mixed it with energy drinks, compared to 4.7 when students consumed alcohol alone (Drug and Alcohol Review vol29 p.331).

The American Food and Drug Administration has written to manufacturers stating that caffeine is an ‘unsafe food additive in strong beers’. Apparently alcohol mixed with energy caffeine drinks results in users becoming three times more intoxicated than those not mixing alcohol with high energy caffeine drinks.

This has huge implications for licensing in Southwark and generally in the UK. It seems clear that licensees shouldn’t be selling high energy caffeine drinks.

Have you ever mixed alcohol with caffeine high energy drinks – if you have what did it do for you?