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Re:The Horrifying Epidemic of Teen-Age Fentanyl Deaths in a ... by b800h on Thursday March 30, 2023 @02:19AM (#35368776)
Sorry, that's wrong, at least as far as caffeine is concerned, and certainly as far as adverse behavioural effects ("behavioural toxicity") are concerned in humans.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S131901642...

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Re:The Horrifying Epidemic of Teen-Age Fentanyl Deaths in a ... by bowsamic on Thursday March 30, 2023 @03:11AM (#35369155)
Oh, interesting, thanks. I'm not sure why you're downvoted. What about nicotine?
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Re:The Horrifying Epidemic of Teen-Age Fentanyl Deaths in a ... by b800h on Thursday March 30, 2023 @04:58AM (#35369886)
No idea on that front. The caffeine one struck a chord because I'm a slow metaboliser, and it can cause me issues with anxiety under the wrong circumstances. It does make me wonder how many cases of anxiety are at least exacerbated by genetic issues with processing caffeine and other stimulants.
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Re:The Horrifying Epidemic of Teen-Age Fentanyl Deaths in a ... by lll-o-lll on Thursday March 30, 2023 @04:14AM (#35369573)
Curse you science! Still, this is just in rats. Rats with their weak rat brains. My superior human brain can easily absorb this caffeine with no ill effects!
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Re:The Horrifying Epidemic of Teen-Age Fentanyl Deaths in a ... by prottog on Thursday March 30, 2023 @09:56AM (#35372766)
That Kang et al. study was 50mg/kg of caffeine administered three times a day. That would be about a hundred cups a day of coffee for my body weight. Don't they say the dose makes the poison?
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