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Addiction and Drug Education Blogs and Podcasts, looking at drug use trends and treatment, and how addiction is tied to the brain as well as the body addiction, drugs, education, recovery, substance abuse education, prevention, chemical dependency, AOD CNS Productions CNS Productions service@cnsproductions.com no no http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/podcasts/444/ http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/podcasts/444/#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:49:47 +0000 CNS http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/?p=444 http://www.cnsproductions.com/drugeducationblog/podcasts/444/feed/ 0 00:01:01 Our Addiction Radio podcast looks at the synergistic effects of combining alcohol with caffeine, as well as electronic or e-cigarettes, the attractiveness of both to ... Our Addiction Radio podcast looks at the synergistic effects of combining alcohol with caffeine, as well as electronic or e-cigarettes, the attractiveness of both to younger audiences, and effects of marketing. Transcript of podcast (click to listen): CNS: Hi and welcome to the CNS addiction pod cast, I’m Howard LaMere,  here with Dr Darryl Inaba, and Darryl there’s a bunch of interesting things in the news this week, and I don’t know, which you might want to comment on but just a quick list just for the benefit of people listening. Alcohol and caffeine drinks is being targeted by concerned people in the government as something as maybe needs some regulation, electronic cigarettes where also in the news being something that’s a largely made in China, and the health concerns around that and especially unknown additives and um, the continuation of the story about Michael Jackson and the propofol anesthetic. The abuse of that especially by the medical and medical profession itself as well as high profile folks that afford that can afford it. Maybe the one you’re looking at there a alcohol & caffeine drinks might be of something, might be something to chat about a bit. Darryl: Howard actually those are all phenomenal developments and are interesting things to talk about. We’ve noticed this, this growth of caffeinated alcoholic beverages along time ago not just the fact that right now they’re coming out combined together where they’re mixing um, the vodka and the bourbon and the other things right along with the a soda and the fruit drinks in the, in the can that are sodas combined project, and of course that can supposedly only goes to adults twenty one years old. The youth are the ones and under aged drinkers are the ones who are most attracted by these types’ drinks. But prior to that there was, there is, still a huge growth in, what they call the bomb technique, out here, the bomb, there’s actually I think many of the bars now have specialized mini bars that, that target and focus on the combination of energy drinks with a shot of some sort of liqueur or some sort of liquid. The most popular one I’ve seen is Jägermeister. Where one club here in the local area has a special bar that specializes with a red bull drinks. With red bull in a glass and then a shot of Jägermeister mixing that together foams up when it’s mixed together drinking that down, another club here has a rockstar.  Rockstar is the one they like where they mix it with Rockstar and then another one has Monster, it depends on which popular energy drinks that people are interested in. But it’s a phenomenon that really goes back to the old concept of a speed ball where you mix both a drug of stimulatory brain activity with another drug of depressant activity in the brain and in all fairness the a, and when we looked at that in pharmacology as, what happens when you combine an upper and a downer usually the results were you get better effects than either of them alone. That the people who took or were exposed to morphine and cocaine or amphetamine and some sort of depressant drugs that, that was the best high they ever got was a combination CNS: Yeah it doesn’t cancel each other out it doesn’t make you like normal. Darryl: Yeah that’s the bigger myth or misunderstanding that they’re going to be an antidote for each other. And so if you od on one you can be wakened up by the other or if you’re too over amped you can be put to sleep by the downer and they’re, they’re not true antagonist they don’t cancel out each other but what’s interesting is that they’re physic effects or the emotional effects that people get out of them when they’re combined seems to be almost additive or synergistic. Rather than canceling they actually augment each other. People really feel better when you, when you combine them so that’s one aspect about these energy drinks and caffeine being mixed with alcohol that you’re going Alcohol, Dr. Darryl Inaba, In the News, Podcasts, Smoking, tobacco & nicotine CNS Productions no no