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What Alcohol/Drug Abuse Clinicians Need to Know About Caffeine
Author(s) -
Hughes John R.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
the american journal on addictions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.997
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1521-0391
pISSN - 1055-0496
DOI - 10.1111/j.1521-0391.1996.tb00283.x
Subject(s) - caffeine , drug , adverse effect , medicine , psychiatry , population , psychology , pharmacology , environmental health
Caffeine appears to have few adverse medical effects but can have adverse behavioral effects. Although the effects of caffeine in the population as a whole appear minor, topics deserving further study are whether caffeine use in alcohol/drug abusers can be especially problematic or can interfere with recovery and whether caffeine use can produce a clinically significant dependence syndrome in a subset of users.