Red Bulls and Blue Wave

Some of this is taken from a Brown University, some from personal experience...you can decide which is which.

What happens when energy drinks are combined with alcohol?

Energy drinks are also used as mixers with alcohol. This combination carries a number of dangers:

Since energy drinks are stimulants and alcohol is a depressant, the combination of effects may be dangerous. The stimulant effects can mask how intoxicated you are and prevent you from realizing how much alcohol you have consumed. Fatigue is one of the ways the body normally tells someone that they've had enough to drink.

The stimulant effect can give the person the impression they aren't impaired. No matter how alert you feel, your blood alcohol concentration (BAC) is the same as it would be without the energy drink. Once the stimulant effect wears off, the depressant effects of the alcohol will remain and could cause vomiting in your sleep or respiratory depression.

The mix of stimulant and liquor can sometimes overwhelm one to dance. Although the person knows that going to a dance is the absolute GAYEST thing they can do, they can't help themselves.

Both energy drinks and alcohol are very dehydrating (the caffeine in energy drinks is a diuretic). Dehydration can hinder your body's ability to metabolize alcohol and will increase the toxicity, and therefore the hangover, the next day.

Finally consuming upwards of four or five energy drinks can keep you up for days without sleep, but these sleepless hours can sometimes be parlayed into the greatest night ever.