SUNY Youth Sports Institute Convenes Top Experts in NYC Next Week to Present Research & Analysis on Energy Drink Heal...(vidence-based knowledge on best practice...),Health

Date:6/25/2009

vidence-based knowledge on best practices to help children in their most formative athletic experiences. This helps them develop positive and healthy relationships within their youth sports community. By exploring this new beverage category for its effects on our youngest population we are helping to fulfill that mission," said Donovan.

Top experts in their respective fields will discuss the chemical makeup of these energy drinks, potential health risks, their physical and psychological effects on kids and what happens when energy drinks are mixed with alcohol and other stimulants. SUNY Youth Sports Institute and experts in psychiatry, substance abuse, toxicology, kinesiology, clinical psychology, and sports medicine will be making presentations.

Those presenting include: Mary Claire O'Brien, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Public Health Services, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC. Dr. O'Brien's recent work explores the consumption of alcohol mixed with energy drinks, and the association of this behavior with serious alcohol-related consequences, including injury, sexual assault, and riding with a drunken driver.

"Drinking energy drinks mixed with alcohol just doesn't make sense. If someone told me that I had greatly increased odds of being taken advantage of sexually or riding with a drunk driver, just by drinking an energy drink with my alcohol, I'd think twice about the energy drink. It's just not worth it," said Dr. O'Brien.

Other panelists include: Chad Reissig, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Dr. Reissig's work has focused on a variety of psychoactive drugs including caffeine and caffeinated energy drinks. He was the senior author on the recent publication titled "Caffeinated Energy Drinks -
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