Red Bull® energy drink increases consumption of higher concentrations of alcohol.

Abstract:

:Mixing alcohol with caffeinated energy drinks is a common practice, especially among young people. In humans, the research on this issue has mainly focused on the use of the mass-marketed energy drinks themselves, whereas in animal models, it has focused on the individual effects of their active ingredients (i.e. caffeine). Here, we have characterized how Red Bull®, one of the most consumed caffeinated energy drink worldwide, modulates operant alcohol self-administration in Wistar rats. We found that animals readily and steadily responded for Red Bull (mean: 90 responses, 30 minutes and fixed-ratio 1), which was accompanied by locomotor stimulating effects (26 percent increase). The higher the concentration of alcohol (3-20 percent), the higher the consumption of alcohol (g/kg) and associated blood alcohol levels (91.76 percent) in the mixed Red Bull-alcohol group (60 percent increase). Blood caffeine levels in the Red Bull group were 4.69 μg/ml and 1.31 μg/ml in the Red Bull-alcohol group after the 30-minute session. Because Red Bull also contains 11 percent sucrose, we examined the time course of blood glucose as well as insulin and corticosterone. The correlation between intake of Red Bull and blood glucose levels was higher at 90 minutes than 5 minutes after its consumption, and there was no relationship with blood insulin or blood corticosterone levels. Red Bull did not alter extinction and reacquisition of responding for alcohol nor did it affect relapse-like drinking. Overall, our results suggest that Red Bull might be a vulnerability factor to develop alcoholism given that it intensifies the consumption of higher concentrations of alcohol.

journal_name

Addict Biol

journal_title

Addiction biology

authors

Roldán M,Echeverry-Alzate V,Bühler KM,Sánchez-Diez IJ,Calleja-Conde J,Olmos P,Boehm SL,Maldonado R,Rodríguez de Fonseca F,Santiago C,Gómez-Gallego F,Giné E,López-Moreno JA

doi

10.1111/adb.12560

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2018-09-01 00:00:00

pages

1094-1105

issue

5

eissn

1355-6215

issn

1369-1600

journal_volume

23

pub_type

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