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#1341744 - 04/30/12 01:00 PM

Getting drunk on hand sanitizer???

Chicago Jesus
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Dangerous new teen trend: Getting drunk on hand sanitizer
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posted at 9:50 am on April 29, 2012 by Howard Portnoy

Soon you may need to show a photo ID and sign a federal drug registry to buy liquid hand soap for your home. Those requirements were imposed on the purchase of Sudafed after Food and Drug Administration affirmed that the sinus medicine could be used to make meth. Now some enterprising teens have discovered that using hand sanitizer for a purpose other than the one for which it was intended can give you a buzz.

The Los Angeles Times reports:

Six teenagers have shown up in two San Fernando Valley emergency rooms in the last few months with alcohol poisoning after drinking hand sanitizer, worrying public health officials who say the cases could signal a dangerous trend.

Some of the teenagers used salt to separate the alcohol from the sanitizer, making a potent drink that is similar to a shot of hard liquor.

Cyrus Rangan, a toxicology consultant for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, is quoted as saying, “All it takes is just a few swallows and you have a drunk teenager. There is no question that it is dangerous.”

The article notes that there have been only a handful of cases, but that the product is cheap and accessible … and lethal. Liquid hand sanitizer is 62% ethyl alcohol, which means that the hard liquor distilled from it (instructions for which are easily found on the Internet) is 120-proof. A few drinks can cause a person’s speech to slur and stomach to burn.

This abuse of a household product by young people is just the latest in a long line that includes the sniffing of airplane glue and the drinking of cough syrup with codeine, mouthwash, and vanilla extract. From such small steps, some teens have graduated to the big leagues, joining seasoned alcoholics in the consumption of such deadly beverages as antifreeze and wood alcohol.

The Times quotes a second expert at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles as advising that parents buy the foam version of hand sanitizer rather than the gel type because extracting the alcohol from the foam is more of a challenge. Sadly this is precisely the sort of challenge to which today’s youth aspires.

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#1341823 - 04/30/12 06:55 PM Re: Getting drunk on hand sanitizer??? [Re: Chicago Jesus]
VM Smith VM Smith Diamond Member Registered: 11/28/05 Posts: 34290 Loc: Reality	Quote: Soon you may need to show a photo ID and sign a federal drug registry to buy liquid hand soap for your home. In lockdown, nanny nation, I wouldn't be surprised. Next thing you know, the game cops will be fencing every fruit tree so that deer can't indulge their natural taste for fermented, alcoholic fruit: http://www.blogiversity.org/blogs/panda_...nted-fruit.aspx _________________________ The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. John Hay (1872)
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#1341831 - 04/30/12 07:24 PM Re: Getting drunk on hand sanitizer??? [Re: VM Smith]
Chicago Jesus Chicago Jesus Senior Member Registered: 01/16/12 Posts: 6128 Loc: Cocktails with Regie and Tiger	Originally Posted By: VM Smith Quote: Soon you may need to show a photo ID and sign a federal drug registry to buy liquid hand soap for your home. In lockdown, nanny nation, I wouldn't be surprised. Next thing you know, the game cops will be fencing every fruit tree so that deer can't indulge their natural taste for fermented, alcoholic fruit: http://www.blogiversity.org/blogs/panda_...nted-fruit.aspx Ahahahahahahaha.... The games cop are going to be herding all of us in the Gulag. _________________________ Liberty anywhere is a threat to Collectivism everywhere. Remember.... Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl
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