Hand sanitizer-the new alcohol?

[fireheart]

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/n...-1226077934701

A guy drinks SIX bottles of hand sanitizer in a hospital and gets a BAC of .271.

[firecat88]

Buh....wha...why did....y'know what? I don't wanna know.

[DeltaSierra]

I don't see how they will manage to keep them secured - when I did my phlebotomy clinical at my local hospital at the beginning of the month, we had sanitizers on our carts, as well as in every single room, and went through (this is just us phlebotomists - 5 of us) about 20 bottles in a week. It wouldn't be feasable to have them bolted to something and then have to carry around bottles to refill, unless somebody was dedicated to doing nothing all day but refilling every single bottle in each patient room, outside each room, in the reception areas, waiting rooms, bathrooms (you get the point.)

[fireheart]

No idea how they'll enforce it, although you'd have to be completely psychotic to actually DRINK that stuff.

[LillFilly]

We had a guy at my mall drinking Listerine (*shudders*) ; he seemed like he'd been through a few bottles!

What next, the hospital won't give you mouthwash for fear you'll drink it?

[XCashier]

No idea how they'll enforce it, although you'd have to be completely psychotic to actually DRINK that stuff.

The stupidest of stupid will drink anything that'll get them "drunk". So why protect them from their own stupidity? Let them drink hand sanitizer and mouthwash. Hell, give them a tharra/changaa cocktail (call it a Darwin Award or a Gene Pool Shock Treatment) and let them get permanently wasted!

[RecoveringKinkoid]

When me and my cousin were kids, we had this tea party and we used different colors of mouthwash to tint the water we were making "tea" out of. Knowing it didn't taste great, we didn't use much. Just enough to faintly tint the water. We used it because we figured, hey, it's something you put in your mouth, it must be safe.

You know what I remember most? The horrible stomach pains and nausea. To this very day I remember how horrible we felt. We didn't even dring enough, I thought, to hardly even taste, much less get drunk off the alcohol content.

So that begs the question, how in the HELL does one drink enough hand sanitizer to get drunk? How do you get it down and keep it down long enough to even get a buzz off it?

[Caveat Emptor]

I recently saw the movie Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, set in 1890. One scene had Indians begging at a pharmacy window for cod-liver oil because it contained a small amount of alcohol. I remember reading that destitute Indians on the Pine Ridge reservation in the Dakotas drink Listerine for the same reason

[lordlundar]

There's a story in Darwin Awards of a Chem professor sneaking out bottles of Ethyl Alcohol so he could get drunk in class. One day he misread the label and took the bottle of Methyl Alcohol. Oops.

[Moirae]

Ok, I just had to skip all of that and outright say "Ewwwww, thats gross".

[Caveat Emptor]

There's a story in Darwin Awards of a Chem professor sneaking out bottles of Ethyl Alcohol so he could get drunk in class. One day he misread the label and took the bottle of Methyl Alcohol. Oops.

http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2001-22.html

[trailerparkmedic]

DS, at the hospitals I've worked at, the hand sanitizer is on the walls in little cases where you push the lever at the bottom for a squirt. They're just like a wall mounted soap dispenser and some department is in charge of making sure they're full. It's actually pretty handy since they tend to be right outside patient rooms, making it easy to remember to do your hands when you enter and leave.

The desperation of addicts is so sad.

[lordlundar]

http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2001-22.html

The very same.