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Energy drinks and alcohol-related risk among young adults.
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- Heavy Episodic Drinking and Hazardous Drinking Among Japanese Young Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study on Prevalence and Associated Factors.Neuropsychopharmacology reports · 2026Article
- Energy drinks in Tamale: Understanding youth perceptions, consumption patterns, and related factors.PloS one · 2024Article
- Reducing Unhealthy Normative Behavior: The Case of Sports and Energy Drinks.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2023Article
- Interaction of Energy Drinks with Prescription Medication and Drugs of Abuse.Pharmaceutics · 2021Review
- Anxiety-like behavior and whole-body cortisol responses to components of energy drinks in zebrafish (PeerJ · 2019Article
- Emerging Adults' Discussion of Substance Use and Sexual Behavior with Providers.Journal of health communication · 2019Article
- Intensity of Energy Drink Use Plus Alcohol Predict Risky Health Behaviours among University Students in the Caribbean.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
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backgroundEnergy drink consumption, with or without concurrent alcohol use, is common among young adults. This study sought to clarify risk for negative alcohol outcomes related to the timing of energy drink use.
methodsThe authors interviewed a community sample of 481 young adults, aged 18-25, who drank alcohol in the last month. Past-30-day energy drink use was operationalized as no-use, use without concurrent alcohol, and concurrent use of energy drinks with alcohol ("within a couple of hours"). Negative alcohol outcomes included past-30-day binge drinking, past-30-day alcohol use disorder, and drinking-related consequences.
resultsJust over half (50.5%) reported no use of energy drinks,18.3% reported using energy drinks without concurrent alcohol use, and 31.2% reported concurrent use of energy drinks and alcohol. Relative to those who reported concurrent use of energy drinks with alcohol, and controlling for background characteristics and frequency of alcohol consumption, those who didn't use energy drinks and those who used without concurrent alcohol use had significantly lower binge drinking, negative consequences, and rates of alcohol use disorder (P < .05 for all outcomes). There were no significant differences between the no-use and energy drink without concurrent alcohol groups on any alcohol-related measure (P > .10 for all outcomes).
conclusionsConcurrent energy drink and alcohol use is associated with increased risk for negative alcohol consequences in young adults. Clinicians providing care to young adults could consider asking patients about concurrent energy drink and alcohol use as a way to begin a conversation about risky alcohol consumption while addressing 2 substances commonly used by this population.
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