[HN Gopher] The invisible addiction: is it time to give up caffe...
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       The invisible addiction: is it time to give up caffeine?
        
       Author : mathgenius
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2021-07-06 21:48 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | retrac wrote:
       | With most psychoactive drugs, including stimulants, regular use
       | rapidly results in diminishing effect, and soon chemical
       | dependency, in order to, putting it crudely, be back at baseline.
       | I really doubt caffeine is an exception to this, and its
       | mechanism of action, and what we know about caffeine performance
       | enhancement (very short term) suggests that is the case. This may
       | be a bit of an over the top comparison, but the two-cups-every-
       | morning type isn't unlike the heroin junkie who needs a good dose
       | just to be functional in the morning. Racing to catch up to where
       | they would have been anyway, without it.
       | 
       | That's not to say I don't drink coffee. I'll also probably take
       | morphine if I ever break something unpleasant and it really
       | hurts. In both cases, they've got real uses, but it's a
       | situational thing, and usually best done sparingly for no longer
       | than necessary. Though, fortunately, caffeine addiction usually
       | results in no more than irritated coworkers, headaches and the
       | accumulated health debt of chronic sleep deprivation. (Something
       | sleep-related is often the underlying reason someone feels they
       | need caffeine regularly, anyway.)
        
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