Kristina Brache, a PhD student in Psychology, is calling out the dangers of consuming energy drinks and alcohol, a widespread practice that poses serious risks to health and public safety, officials say. She has found in her research that out of 465 university students, those who combined caffeinated energy drinks with alcohol, or consumed premixed caffeinated alcoholic beverages, were more likely than those who drank alcohol alone to engage in risky behaviour, including driving intoxicated or getting in a vehicle with a drunk driver. Brache is the first to publish research of this kind in Canada and wasn’t surprised by the outcome of the study, given similar findings south of the border.

Read Kristina's full story in The Saanich News.