Life Pleasant and Hazardous
How many people enjoy life? Most, one may say. And what are the pleasures people enjoy? Reading a good love story or being enthusiastic with the new best-seller, thriller by King, or probably you like very good movies. The list is to be completed with every own taste. And isn’t enjoying life through the meals or drink pleasant? One can say it is and will definitely be right. But is that kind of pleasure pleasant? Or maybe hazardous?
The problem called substance addiction is widely spoken about and is learned very much from all the facets of modern society. Any drug that is cocaine, heroin, opium, alcohol, tobacco abuse, or some other drug abuse is not pleasant anymore when conditioned to addiction, and its withdrawal is painful.
Caffeine addiction
“A single cup of coffee a day is enough to get you hooked on caffeine, it is revealed today” (p. 26, Mark Prigg). The problem of caffeine abuse is so regular in society that caffeine addiction is called common today.
The questions to ask students, for instance, concerning the quantity of coffee drank per day, the sum of money spent on it for some period of time, and the main is there any predisposed need of abusing caffeine. Aspects concerning professional interests can be of pros and cons of including the caffeine withdrawal syndrome in the DSM. Rebecca Brinker employed for Starbucks says on average, there are around 400 to 500 people who buy a coffee a day, not including the faculty. Sometimes, there are repeat customers who will buy coffee three or four times a day, and their best seller is Frappuccino and Caramel Macchiato. And from the coffee makers and distributors part, the questions of the profit and quality of the coffee sold are concerned. Professor Roland Griffiths, involved in researching the problem of caffeine abuse from, says that caffeine is the best known in the world and commonly used stimulant and its cheapness and easy availability stand for the easy and simple way of getting and maintaining. And continuing the research conclusion, Griffiths states that caffeine addiction, when reducing the daily dose, causes the suffering a number of withdrawal symptoms such as tiredness, headache, difficulty concentrating, and so forth. That is today’s reality.
An average citizen Steve Pavlina recalls when after connecting his life with programming PC games, he began drinking coffee, often sometimes every day of the month, sometimes breaking the habit, but it was cyclical anyway. But then there was the book “Pour Your Heart Into It” by Schultz. As Steve says, the author made a gourmet coffee sound in a manner that Steve embarked on a Starbucks kick at once. And after that tried all gourmet coffees, espressos, soy lattes known to make his mind about Starbucks coffee. And Steve can not find better coffee than those made by Starbucks.
Many physicians, amid which professor Griffiths, anticipate caffeine addiction should be included in the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which is compiled by the American Psychiatric Association and regarded to be the veritable bible of mental disorders among medical professionals.
Despite Steve Pavlina’s awareness and a big interest in Starbucks coffees, there is a professional view on the problem expressed by the psychologist, whose surname she wanted not to mention, named Nancy, which says there are many things that might be of addictive nature for a human mind or body and psychologists debates on whether this or that substance addictive are groundless for the main goal of the psychologists is to aid people to live better lives. And it is a rather pragmatic question stipulated by the professionals need to debate about, but not by the addiction nature itself.
But like any problem, this one concerning caffeine abuse is multifaceted. And professional view stipulated by, probably, some specific aspects and the average coffee user or abuser view is the matter of long and active discussions, but if something is problematic for someone, then someone shows think over it in order not to get sick or addicted.
Bibliography
Drop That Cup: ‘Caffeine Addiction’ Joins the List. (2004). The Washington Times, pp. A09, A11.
GARETH SMITH: Why Is My Heart Beating So Fast? (2004). Sunday Mail, p.49.
Just One Cup of Coffee a Day Makes You a Caffeine Junkie; MENTAL HEALTH FEARS AFTER STUDY. (2004). The Evening Standard, p.26.
Pavlina, S. (2005). How To Give Up Coffee. 2008. Web.