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Marlowe Bucaojit
English 12
Mr. Price
March 10, 2015

Coffee is a Drug
Caffeine is one of the worlds most popular stimulant. People drink it in the morning to
wake up, for the taste, keep us alert, and ready for whatever. While that sounds great, it really
isnt due to caffeine withdrawals, its a poison, and it causes stomach ulcers.
Withdrawals from caffeine can occur from missing just one cup of coffee in the morning.
Symptoms of the withdraw include headaches, irritability, inability to work effectively,
nervousness, restlessness, and lethargy. Another symptom for a steady coffee user may at
times experience tight headaches in the back of the neck area and be quick to irritate and or
anger. Being a coffee user personally, it is safe to say that these things do occur often if one cup
of coffee is missed. Its not the same symptom it usually switches from one symptom to another
or maybe theres multiple symptoms when missing a cup of coffee. Not many people see this as
a problem until they experience it and then can say that it almost acts like a poison.
Caffeine is a powerful poison because results in animal experiments where a the littlest
amount of caffeine injected into the skin of an animal will cause them death within a few
minutes. Even worse, an infinitely small amount injected into the brain will cause convulsions.
The amount of caffeine in coffee is a fairly small amount, yet we drink coffee because of the

effects of the caffeine. Just as people smoke because of the effect nicotine does to them. Both
are habit forming that are not wanted and both are poisons. One thing caffeine does that
nicotine doesnt do is that caffeine can cause stomach ulcers.

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Scientists whose experiments on coffee state that caffeine produces gastro-duodenal
ulcers. Gastroduodenal ulcers are a lesion of the skin or a mucous membrane such as the one
lining the stomach or duodenum that is accompanied by formation of pus and necrosis of
surrounding tissue, usually resulting from inflammation or ischemia. In animals, the drug is given
in a beeswax container so that their stomachs aboard caffeine continually. Caffeine also
produces very definite changes in the blood vessels of animals.
Overall, caffeine does things to the human body we may have not been aware of and the
effects of it arent positive. There are actually more side effects on how caffeine can effect you
like hip fractures, infertility, increases the risk of birth defects, increases in blood pressure,
increase for heart disease, and the list can go on. There is a way to escape this drug and its to
consume things that will contribute to the body nutritiously.