What I find disturbing is how they are drinking. I used to drink to excess, get sick, pass out and sleep for several hours - wake with a hangover and swear to never repeat that process again. I think many of us did.
But, what’s changed now is the emergence of “5 Hour Energy” drinks. If you haven’t tried one, you out to; just to see how well they really do work. It’s not just caffeine (no jittery feeling), not just complex carbs (sugar free) and only 4 calories. I suspect they bind up Seratonin, but that’s just a wild conjecture on my part (I’m an engineer, not a MD or biologist).
What I do know, is that they make you wide awake, alert and full of energy; now what the kids are doing is mixing a shot of Vodka with a shot of this stuff - so you wind up with a highly stimulated drunk, who can’t sleep if his life depends upon it. So, instead of getting drunk and sleepy; they get drunk and are wired and frenetic.
I don’t see anyting good coming from this mixture - I would antiipate seeing an increase in alcohol poisoning; something that used to be relatively rare.
I do know the kids have been drinking Red Bull with their alcohol of choice for years - Party On!
Funny thing is I was a pretty creative drinker during those days too.
According to scientific data, my frontal lobes weren’t fully developed!
That was always the problem with coke - it would keep you up to PROVE what an ass you were - rather than slowing down your “ass demonstration rate”
We used to take speedto keep partying. A lot cheaper than coke.
The key to any of these is prevalence. We were pretty hard core. But not so uncommon. Nowadays - demographics are different. More abstainers - and maybe more hard core partiers, who don’t know what they are doing. Also - more “99% abstain, go wild one weekend types” to try to ear stree tcred as a partier. We partied 3-4 nights a week. These kids - are good for three weeks - then try to “let loose” - not a good mix. (As if my mix were better!)
We were awesome hard core - but no one ever got hurt. Maybe just luck. But some of these modern kids - are like amateurs on St Pat’s day.