The FDA warned four companies to stop selling caffeinated alcoholic malt beverages, including Four Loko, concluding caffeine is not generally recognised as safe in such drinks because it can mask the cues drinkers use to judge how intoxicated they are.
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Don't use alcohol with energy drink
Regulators weighed action against caffeinated alcoholic drinks such as Four Loko after reports of illness and deaths. A study in Alcoholism found that adding an energy drink to alcohol dulled drinkers' sense of impairment without improving motor coordination or visual concentration.
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Study: Energy Drinks May Raise Heart Attack Risk
Fifty healthy volunteers drank one 250 ml sugar-free energy drink. An hour later platelet aggregation had risen while endothelial function fell and arterial pressure rose. The authors report only these acute changes in healthy young adults.
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