Energy drinks and teenagers

Around high schools you can see students with cans of Red Bull or Monster or other "energy" drinks. Ask them, and they'll sometimes say the drinks help them through the day. Ambitious teenagers are up late and up early, getting too little sleep and feeling under pressure to do well at everything.

As a parent of a teenager, I wonder how much of these drinks young people should consume. Apparently, I'm not alone. Jill U. Adams talks to drug experts about the buzz from energy drinks. Read her story.

-- Mary MacVean

Photo: Eric Boyd / Los Angeles Times

Comments

[Nathan O.]

Energy drinks for the intelligent? Doubt it. Energy drinks have gone the same way Beyblades and yo-yos have gone for middle school and elementary students. The hip jock chugs down the 16oz the same way the six year old boasts about his winning toy. Here today, gone tomorrow.