Caffeine 'addiction': A tortured love

November 12, 2013 at 07:49 AM
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This spring, the American Psychiatric Association included caffeine withdrawal in its diagnostic and statistical manual. That's almost 70 years after American hit its coffee heyday when the average person consumed 47 gallons per year – twice the current level of consumption. But don't assume that caffeine consumption has gone down – we're just getting it in different ways now.