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That's what has public-health and law-enforcement officials worried. Though flavored malt beverages make up less than 2% of alcohol servings in the U.S., alcohol-policy experts have long worried that many of those servings are consumed by minors who have no palate (yet) for real beer. The new alcoholic energy drinks have a further pull on the youth market: the promise that you can get drunk but still party all night because of the caffeine. Quite drunk: Joose, for instance, has the color and approximate flavor of strawberry soda, but it's 9% alcohol, compared with...
...Mixing alcohol, a depressant, with stimulants is nothing new. The Irish have their eponymous coffee, and any authentic Italian restaurant offers something called caffè corretto, a shot of espresso mixed with a shot of grappa or sambuca. (The wonderfully knowing name translates as "corrected coffee.") But alcoholic energy drinks are different because they are so obviously marketed to kids. Ads are found mainly online or in publications like Blender. The Sparks website looks like it was designed by a (very young, very Flash-savvy) student...
...marketing aside, alcoholic energy drinks raise a scientific question that many drinkers have long wondered about: can you counteract the effects of alcohol by drinking caffeine with it? Should...
...little more clarification. If the question is, "Would providing over-the-counter antidepressants be a way to get needed medicine to clinically depressed individuals?" then you might have one kind of answer to it. And if your question is, "Should antidepressants be available like other recreational drugs, like alcohol?"" then you've got a slightly different question. The trouble, I guess, is there's a lot of concern that if you start providing needed medicine to clinically depressed individuals over the counter, it will pretty quickly become a drug that's used much more like alcohol or some other kind...
...deployed to maintain crowd control, while the Chelsea and United fans were segregated both from one another and, as far as possible. Their charter flights landed at different airports, and most were taken directly to separate fan stockades connected to the stadium by special galleries to prevent any mixing. Alcohol sales at the stadium were banned on the night of the game. And last but not least, the Russian authorities preemptively locked up some particularly notorious Russian neo-Nazis, who had previously been responsible for deadly attacks on foreigners, although they had hitherto hardly been a priority of law enforcement...