October 17, 2011
London - Need a cup of hot coffee to make a perfect beginning to your day? Beware, you
are more likely to get hooked on drugs, claims a new study. Although not
everyone who enjoys caffeine would likely to abuse drugs, the researchers found
that people who respond favourably to caffeine are vulnerable to the effects of
drugs such as amphetamines and cocaine.
The finding, published in Drug and Alcohol
Dependence, is based on a study of a group people who were asked if they
preferred caffeine to a placebo tablet. They were then given a type of
amphetamine and asked to rate it. Most who liked the caffeine liked the drugs.
Study researcher Prof Stacey Sigmon of
Vermont University in the US said:"People differ dramatically in how they
respond to drugs." "For example, a single dose of a drug can produce
completely opposite effects in two people with one absolutely loving and the
other hating the drug's effects," he was quoted as saying by the Daily
Mail.
"It is important to improve our
understanding of these differences, as they may reflect key individual
differences in vulnerability or resilience for drug abuse."A person's
response to the d-amphetamine also reveals how they would react of other
commonly-abused drugs like cocaine as they have similar effects, the scientists
said.
The study, according to them, is the first to
demonstrate caffeine prospectively predicts the positive subjective effects of
another drug. "While these data do not mean that every coffee lover is at
risk for proceeding to cocaine abuse this study does show individuals vary
markedly in their subjective and behavioural response to psychomotor
stimulants," Prof Sigmon added.
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