Utah’s state's Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control reviewed alcoholic beverages that contain a mixture of caffeine and alcohol and prohibited their distribution in convenient or liquor stores within the state.

After incidents at several American colleges in New Jersey or Washington in which students were being hospitalized after having consumed the alcohol-caffeine drink Four Loko, Utah is now praised for having efficient government regulated liquor regulations.

Most attention in the media was caused by a party of Central Washington University that ended in the hospital for several guests. They consumed several drinks of the brand Four Loko which contains 12 percent alcohol and caffeine concentration of several espressos. The beverage is available in parts of the US for only $2.50 in regular convenient stores.

Some of the hospitalized students were diagnosed with alcohol poisoning of 3.0 pro mill alcohol levels in their blood. Health experts warn that beverages that consist both of caffeine and alcohol are harmful to the human body, especially if they are consumed in great amounts.

Coordinator for nutrition education programs at Purdue's Student Health Center, Anne Mahon, states: "That combination is what really speeds up the state of drunkenness, and it's beyond the body's ability to process. Then it really begins to put people at risk of developing alcohol poisoning very quickly."

Health officials of the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association recommend other states to quickly follow the role model of Utah and get Four Loko out of adolescents reach.