College students who have mixed energy drinks and alcohol will get more intoxicated because the caffeine in the energy drinks will mask the sleepy effects of the alcohol.
Energy drinks have high levels of caffeine in them. What this caffeine does is mask the sleepy effects of the alcohol in those drinks that make us feel drowsy. Since these get masked, we get more alert. A term used to describe this is 'wide awake intoxication'.
As this happens, we become unaware of whatever signs our body might have been sending us before (the drowsiness) and as a result, we end up drinking more.
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