Caffeine Informative Essay

We all know about caffeine; your mother when you were little, did not allow you to have too much of it considering it made you hyper. Back then, we would have thought our mothers were just being cruel to us, but it was in our best interest. Why, you may ask: it’s because of how caffeine is addictive and how it affects us. According to an online encyclopedia, caffeine is, “ a stimulant, and is found in small amounts in coffee, tea, and colas...When taken in small amounts, caffeine increases alertness and energy. When taken in large amounts, however, it causes nervousness and loss of sleep” (“World Book Caffeine”). When you drink a cup of coffee you may feel a little alert, providing you with energy to get through the day; which is fantastic, but it is when you decide you need more and more, that it begins to become a problem. Students know this as well as people who have stressful jobs with strict deadlines. Caffeine could be considered …show more content…
Caffeine is a highly addictive substance, found in some of our favorite foods and drinks we consume. I read a book recently about caffeine addiction and the author, Marina Kushner, stated that pure caffeine is a white powdery substance, alongside drugs such as cocaine and heroine” (33). Essentially, you are consuming a drug, which would be a stimulant drug. Inside of your favorite soda, chocolate, coffee, tea, or even headache medicine, is a miniscule dose of caffeine. Of course caffeine can be beneficial, but it’s the second you become addicted, that it becomes a problem. People who run on coffee to survive a day and those long nights, are essentially the same as any other drug abuser. Alcoholics who drink away their feelings, druggies who; inject, smoke, consume drugs to give them that high feeling and to run away from their problems, and caffeine addicts who drink/eat away their