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
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