New book suggests caffeine is a widely abused drug

MINE’S a flat white. Plus a couple of squares of dark chocolate and a few cups of Earl Grey tea.

These are my daily CDMs, or caffeine-delivery-mechanisms, a term used by author Murray Carpenter to refer to ‘convenient, stigma-free vessels by which we funnel caffeine into our bodies’.

In his new book, Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Hooks, Helps and Hurts Carpenter says caffeine has all the hallmarks of a drug of abuse.