Mixing alcohol with energy drinks such as Red Bull is like ‘mixing cocaine with heroin’, a drugs expert had claimed.

Don Serratt, founder of British drug treatment center Life Works, said mixing extreme quantities of the stimulant caffeine with the depressant alcohol was ‘a very dangerous cocktail’.

He was responding to a study which found young adults were twice as likely to be hurt and require medical attention and twice as likely to travel with a drunk driver if they had the cocktail, than those who did not mix their drinks.

In the first study of its kind, American researchers questioned 4,271 students from 10 U.S. universities about their drinking habits and the consequences.
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