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InvisibleveggieM

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Caffeine linked to psychiatric disorders
    #6326814 - 12/02/06 10:22 AM (17 years, 2 months ago)

Oh jeez, now my morning coffee will make me nuts too....

Caffeine linked to psychiatric disorders
December 2, 2006 - canada.com

Everybody knows that a few strong cups of coffee can turn some otherwise pleasant people into crabby bundles of anxiety, whose jitters give way to lethargy in the span of a few hours.

In others, the opposite is true -- a coffee seems to chase away the grumpiness of the morning.

Less well known, even by scientists, are caffeine's mental effects in the longer term, as a possible cause of psychological disorders.

Today, as Starbucks expands into its 38th country (Brazil), new research from a Virginia scientist shows that prolonged use of caffeine -- the world's most popular drug, used daily by four out of five people globally -- might literally drive you insane.

Five cups of brewed coffee per day, or the equivalent caffeine intake in tea or cola, made people more than twice as likely to exhibit adult antisocial personality disorder, and abuse of alcohol, cannabis or cocaine, according to Kenneth Kendler, director of the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioural Genetics.

These heavy caffeine users were also almost twice as likely to exhibit panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder and major depression.

Even among moderate users, the odds of exhibiting one of these illnesses were increased across the board, according to Dr. Kendler's survey of more than 3,600 adult twins, which appears in the December issue of Psychological Medicine.

These twins, who share all their genes as well as family history but often differed in caffeine use, allowed his team to tease out the specific effects of the drug from the effects of the environment.

He was not surprised by what he found, which he described as significant, but not profound.

"Any form of drug use is broadly related to aspects of psychopathology," he said in an interview. "You're consuming a substance that influences the way you think."

What does surprise him is that he was the first to find this link, however weak.

"It's very hard to get funding, because no agency is interested and Starbucks won't fund you, so we don't know a lot in terms of even straight epidemiology," he said. "They [research funding agencies] just shake their heads, saying 'It's not harmful. We're not interested.'"

Dr. Kendler thinks what he has found is more of a correlation between one's propensity to use caffeine and one's genetic risk of psychiatric illness, but the consistency of the results suggests to him that there is some minor causal relationship at play. Either way, he says this is not reason to give up one's morning hit or mid-afternoon pick-me-up.

"Caffeine has a pretty interesting history," he said. "In the 18th century there were coffee houses in London that were like crack houses now. They were places you would not want your child to go. But coffee now is on a peak of popularity. Everybody's having their double latte this and that. So how we socially label what psychoactive substances are OK and which are not is an interesting economic, politically driven process. And right now caffeine seems to be at a high, where it's not even negative, it's a sign of one's sophistication."


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Re: Caffeine linked to psychiatric disorders [Re: veggie]
    #6326981 - 12/02/06 11:30 AM (17 years, 2 months ago)

"A Canadian doctor studying the adverse effects of caffeine was found dead in his home late last night. Officials suspect foul play and have launched an investigation into all coffee houses in the area. Full story at 11...."


This could be useful in our struggle against the WoD. Starbucks, Coca-Cola, and Pepsico are nothing more than corporate drug peddlers.


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