“A big part of the problem is that people try to hide the sleep deprivation with caffeine. Caffeine is a drug that makes people feel like they are not tired, but it does not make them less tired. At least when people feel tired they know they aren’t functioning as well.
It’s like how morphine makes people feel like they aren’t injured, but if try to go about their day as normal because they don’t feel any pain they are only going to injure themselves more.
I took a class on they physiological effects of drugs in college and my professor summed up the section on caffeine: “Caffeine makes people do more dumb things faster.” It is much better to just get the rest your body needs.
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