Today there is a tendency especially among younger people mix energy drinks with alcohol, especially vodka and liqueurs. And according to researchers from Wake Forest University in North Carolina this mixture is a danger that it doubles in those who ingest the chances of damage to health when compared with the risk of those who only drink alcohol.

The researchers conducted a survey, interviewing 4,000 students regarding their drinking habits and found that those who drank cocktails with the explosive mixture, were more likely to need medical help, or accident damage and even to experience sexual problems.
Argentina:

A hospital reach more young people with stroke, tachycardia, hypertension, cardiac arrhythmias and disturbances of older people themselves, caused by a new factor: the abuse in the consumption of alcohol mixed with energy drinks.
Concern about this trend among young people had become evident in 2004 when national legislators submitted projects to prohibit the sale of energy drinks to minors.

the National Drug, Food and Medical Technology (Anmat), which seeks to require producers to reduce the amount of caffeine in this product: 35 to 20 milligrams per 100 milliliters. It also requires that the cans are enrolled in letters larger than 5 percent of the height of the container the following legend: “Alcohol consumption is injurious to health”.

Daniel Berrocal, deputy head of Service of Hospital Italiano Hemodynamics, said heart problems being experienced by the consumption of alcohol and energy drinks for three or four years. People, aged between 25 and 40, arrived with acute infarcts without previous coronary disease.
“The heart is much worse in a young person, in which the coronary arteries become clogged abruptly,” said the specialist, and warned that such patients may even suffer heart failure for life.

“What happens is that taken with alcohol three or four cans of these drinks in one night and, like caffeine-load equivalent to 20 cups of espresso-increases heart rate, subject to greater friction coverage of the arteries and produces a rash that can generate a clot that covers the artery, causing heart attacks, “he said.
The caffeine produces stimulation and disruption of central nervous system, causing increased body activity, coupled q alcohol is a depressant of the nervous system produces an instability. The other case is the use of ecstasy, which produces central vasodilation, mydriasis, peripheral vasoconstriction, increased heart rate, until the subject can become dehydrated, cardio respiratory and so on.

In these cases you can sum those children who have heart disease and not know it, for which the excess consumption of these drinks is far more dangerous, warns Monica Napoli, director of the Center for Addiction Enrique Biedak. “You see cardiac problems are not consistent with age. We serve acute intoxication by alcohol and caffeine, “he said.