Caffeine is an addictive drug

[Spiderman]

If you are addicted to caffeine, you are a drug addict. At what point does caffeine use fall into the category of drug abuse?

I mean, a cup of coffee or soda is not abuse, but still drug use nonetheless. I'd say the quantity of tea that I drink throughout the day is indeed abusing it because I overdo it. I go through more than 10 tea bags a day.

I wonder what percentage of the world are drug addicts when you include the fact that caffeine and nicotine are addictive drugs?

 

[Estro Felino]

If you are addicted to caffeine, you are a drug addict.

I really am...
and I'm speaking of 3-4 espressos a day...like the average Italic

 

[Spiderman]

I really am...
and I'm speaking of 3-4 espressos a day...like the average Italic

You junkie!

 

[Earthling]

From the time I was 14 until I was in my 30's I drank a gallon of instant sweetened tea a day. I moved out into the sticks, an hour's drive from town and I was working 6 days a week and I kept forgetting to buy tea, so on Sundays I would get debilitating headaches. I finally quit it and for years drank only ice water.

Now I drink decaffeinated tea, and Ice water. I tried cranberry juice and grapefruit juice which I love, but are pure sugar. Is sugar a drug? Every once in a while I may have a caffeine soda, but I'm not a slave to it. No withdrawals.

 

[Enoch07]

Everyone is addicted to something. Love, sex, drugs, music, art, literature, etc.

Anything can be unhealthy if not done in moderation. Heck you can even overdose on water for crying out loud. Look up water intoxication!


Me? I am an addict by nature. I have been addicted to a lot of different things. Alchohol and nicotine is my go to nowadays. Though I haven't had a drop of alchohol in about 4 months just do to the fact that I just haven't felt like it. So now if I can just feel that way about cigarettes I might be able to get rid of my 2 worst habits.

 

[Hockeycowboy]

I think the key word here, is addict. As in, can’t do without it.

If you go without something, and your body reacts negatively (like getting a headache, etc.), then that is not good.

I knew a guy, who was a dealer of marijuana, heroine and coke for over 10 years...and he’d tried it all. Many different times. But he never got addicted! Never felt he had to have it. Even LSD.

That was amazing, to me.

 

[Twilight Hue]

If you are addicted to caffeine, you are a drug addict. At what point does caffeine use fall into the category of drug abuse?

I mean, a cup of coffee or soda is not abuse, but still drug use nonetheless. I'd say the quantity of tea that I drink throughout the day is indeed abusing it because I overdo it. I go through more than 10 tea bags a day.

I wonder what percentage of the world are drug addicts when you include the fact that caffeine and nicotine are addictive drugs?

Coffee. The elixir of the Gods.

 

[Spiderman]

I could easily see over 90% of adult Americans being drug addicts. It wouldn't surprise me at all.

 

[Glaurung]

I would counter that my consumption of coffee is a habit rather than an addiction. An addiction is a habit which has become adverse and compulsive and unless you're taking the drug in its pure form caffeine's potential for this is almost non-existent. Thus I wouldn't class a coffee or tea habit as an addiction.

 

[ChristineM]

If you are addicted to caffeine, you are a drug addict. At what point does caffeine use fall into the category of drug abuse?

I mean, a cup of coffee or soda is not abuse, but still drug use nonetheless. I'd say the quantity of tea that I drink throughout the day is indeed abusing it because I overdo it. I go through more than 10 tea bags a day.

I wonder what percentage of the world are drug addicts when you include the fact that caffeine and nicotine are addictive drugs?

Dont forget alcohol.

You could ask "is life a drug"?... Its very addictive and it always kills you in the end.

FYI. Weight for weight tea contains more caffeine than coffee. But to brew a tea takes less weight of leaves than beans to make a cup of coffee.

 

[Rational Agnostic]

If you are addicted to caffeine, you are a drug addict. At what point does caffeine use fall into the category of drug abuse?

I mean, a cup of coffee or soda is not abuse, but still drug use nonetheless. I'd say the quantity of tea that I drink throughout the day is indeed abusing it because I overdo it. I go through more than 10 tea bags a day.

I wonder what percentage of the world are drug addicts when you include the fact that caffeine and nicotine are addictive drugs?

Depends on how you define "addiction." I know that if I stopped my caffeine intake cold turkey, I would probably have mild withdrawal symptoms for a few days, but I could easily stop my consumption if there was any reason to. I just don't see any good reason to stop consuming caffeine.

 

[Milton Platt]

If you are addicted to caffeine, you are a drug addict. At what point does caffeine use fall into the category of drug abuse?

I mean, a cup of coffee or soda is not abuse, but still drug use nonetheless. I'd say the quantity of tea that I drink throughout the day is indeed abusing it because I overdo it. I go through more than 10 tea bags a day.

I wonder what percentage of the world are drug addicts when you include the fact that caffeine and nicotine are addictive drugs?

Don't forget alcohol.....