People take more risks after downing alcohol-caffeine cocktail, says study

Drinking alcohol with caffeine might cause more alcohol-linked car accidents and sexual assaults

A research has found out that mixing alcohol with energy drinks can lead to ugly tendencies.

People who drink alcohol with caffeine are more likely to get into an alcohol-linked car accident or sexual assault. The US Food and Drug Administration had prohibited in 2010 pre-packaged caffeine-and-alcohol mixture, reasoning that caffeine can mask the effect of alcohol, which will make people drink even more.

Another study by Paris’s INSEAD business school says people act and appear to be drunker if they have drinks labelled as ‘vodka-Red Bull cocktail’.



The study was conducted on 154 people and they were asked to have the same vodka drink but with different labels. The labels were categorized as: vodka cocktail, fruit juice cocktail, and third as “vodka-Red Bull cocktail”.

As soon as they had the drinks, they were asked to first play a gambling game on computer. Secondly, they were told to figure out which woman they will approach from some 15 women whose photographs were shown to them. Finally, they were asked to fill out forms describing their drunkenness experience.



The result proved that subjects who downed the vodka-Red-Bull cocktail were found to be more drunk as they managed to win more on the gamble by risking more, and wanted to approach the most beautiful women of the 15 and did not think “they were out of their league”.

The subjects who said mixing alcohol in the energy drinks intensified the effects of the drinks were found to be in a more drunk state, which proves a certain altered behavior. “It is not because of what [the drink] contains, but because of what you believe it does to you, ” says Pierre Chandon, one of the study’s authors at INSEAD.