Vodka + Red Bull = Standard Saturday Night

No, the image above does not mean Vodka Red Bull (VRB) automatically leads to encounters like the one above. However, on any given Saturday night a round of VRB's are typically expected. Hence, once VRB's are distributed the night may or may not take a turn for the worse or better.

In most situations the use of VRB is to pick the night up. Maybe we are sitting in a bar debating whether or not it is time to call it night. There is also a chance we have been drinking for a long time and I feel like everyone is starting to feel the effects of multiple beers/mixed drinks but we all really want to take it up a notch. The following fact is the most important thing about VRB. Many websites point out the negatives of mixing a depressant (vodka) with a stimulant (red bull).

One doctor says, "Mixing alcohol with energy drinks such as Red Bull is like 'mixing Cocaine with Heroin', a drugs expert had claimed."

Herion with Cocaine? That doesn't sound like a negative, that sounds like a party! No, no, no with all seriousness, the major issue is that experts think Red Bull masks the effect that alcohol is having on your body. This so called masking in turn allows us to drink more. In fact one study about people who mix Red Bull with alcohol states...

"In a typical drinking session, they drank up to 36 per cent more than the other students, and they also reported twice as many episodes of weekly drunkenness, and random sexual encounters."

This is scary stuff if you ask me. After reading articles like these plastered all over the net I think that I, like most social drinkers will probably give up mixing Red Bull into vodka and start mixing it with every drink we have. Twice as many episodes of weekly drunkenness you say? Can it mask the effects of alcohol? Random sexual encounters? I'll tell you what's scary...Imagine how fantastic it would have been if we had these statistics when we were in college!