Every now and then I am forced to re-visit some of the wisdoms of youth. This week, the Journal of Behavioural Neuroscience landed a right hook by publishing a study that suggests that coffee and caffeinated drinks won’t sober you up. Instead, a cup of coffee may make it harder for you to realize you are drunk. OK, the subjects in this study were mice, but at least they are not stupid enough to try and drive 
Article: Effects of Ethanol and Caffeine on Behavior in C57BL/6 Mice in the Plus-Maze Discriminative Avoidance Task,Danielle Gulick, PhD, and Thomas J. Gould, PhD, Temple University; Behavioral Neuroscience, Vol. 123, No. 6.
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