i refer to the post of the said title on newscientist.com, 27/03/06, in which it is mentioned that many alcohol-consuming youths in other parts of the world are adding energy drinks to their alcohol to have a mix that is thought to be not as harmful to their sobriety, and other detrimental effects of alcohol too. This has been recently founded to be untrue, after an experiment. While between the two groups of youths who drank alcoholic drinks and those youths who drank alcoholic drinks mixed with energy drinks such as red bull, the latter thought their coordination and visual skills were unimpaired. Even some researchers have lent credibility to this belief, due to taurine being present in red bull, which they think is able to modulate the effects of alcohol, so that you would have the effect of a 'balanced' drink.
Instead of being disillusioned that one would not suffer as much unbalance after drinking the mix, such drinkers should instead be more wary of themselves. they should understand that drinking energy drinks mixed with alcohol would still impair judgment, resulting in a false sense of being affected by alcohol. obviously, this would also mean drink-driving, even if the drink were mixed with part energy drink, is not safer than unmixed alcoholic based drink driving. Especially where many of us are reaching this stage, we should start to be aware of all these.
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IDIOT.