Is Caffiene a Drug or Dependence
... Its caffeine, the most widely used mood altering drug in the world. ... So should caffeine be considered a drug of dependence as alcohol, or the something that belongs in everyday life? Caffeine maybe is caused by physical dependence, or people prefer the taste of the containing caffeine beverage rather than the beneficial glass of milk. ... 11% of people who gave up caffeine suffered from these like symptoms Substance dependence is a clinical syndrome of drug dependence, which means different behaviors or symptoms that are from problematic drug use. There was little evidence that caffeine was associated to dependence, because of the inability to stop use. There are three studies dealing with the generic DSM criteria for making a diagnosis of substance dependence, the first one is that 16 out of 99 individuals who had severe substance dependence for caffeine, had psychological and physical dependence to caffeine. ... There were 21% that had full substance dependence, with a mean consumption of 232.