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Snorting alcohol...
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Alcohol snorting craze sets off alarm signals
18.02.2004
Binge drinking will only worsen if New Zealanders pick up on the latest overseas craze of snorting alcohol, says the Alcohol Advisory Council.
Drinks such as vodka and absinthe can be "snorted"...through a tube attached to a device known as an Alcohol Without Liquid (AWOL) vaporiser. It costs about $4000.
Scientists say the effects of the alcohol can be felt much quicker as it is directly absorbed through blood vessels in the nose or lungs - bypassing the stomach and liver.
"This is a silly gimmick and potentially dangerous to the individual in the short term as well as the long term if the practice is persisted with, said ALAC chief executive Dr Mike MacAvoy. "People indulging in this practice are just setting out to get drunk. This sort of instant hit fits in with New Zealand's and Britain's dangerous culture of binge drinking."
English bar Il Bordello, in Bristol, offered its customers the device at $16 a hit last week and owner Liz Lewitt said it had proved a hit.
The inventor, Dominic Simler, claims this method of consuming alcohol reduces a hangover and is calorie-free.
Alcohol experts described the device as "diabolical" and warned inhaling alcohol could cause serious brain damage.
Professor Oliver James, head of clinical medical sciences at Newcastle University, said snorting alcohol allows it to enter the brain without being filtered by the liver.
I'd say somebody wasn't filtering this through their brain... [:D]
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18.02.2004
Binge drinking will only worsen if New Zealanders pick up on the latest overseas craze of snorting alcohol, says the Alcohol Advisory Council.
Drinks such as vodka and absinthe can be "snorted"...through a tube attached to a device known as an Alcohol Without Liquid (AWOL) vaporiser. It costs about $4000.
Scientists say the effects of the alcohol can be felt much quicker as it is directly absorbed through blood vessels in the nose or lungs - bypassing the stomach and liver.
"This is a silly gimmick and potentially dangerous to the individual in the short term as well as the long term if the practice is persisted with, said ALAC chief executive Dr Mike MacAvoy. "People indulging in this practice are just setting out to get drunk. This sort of instant hit fits in with New Zealand's and Britain's dangerous culture of binge drinking."
English bar Il Bordello, in Bristol, offered its customers the device at $16 a hit last week and owner Liz Lewitt said it had proved a hit.
The inventor, Dominic Simler, claims this method of consuming alcohol reduces a hangover and is calorie-free.
Alcohol experts described the device as "diabolical" and warned inhaling alcohol could cause serious brain damage.
Professor Oliver James, head of clinical medical sciences at Newcastle University, said snorting alcohol allows it to enter the brain without being filtered by the liver.
I'd say somebody wasn't filtering this through their brain... [:D]
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A tech school mate of mine had a son that was shooting up vodka.
"Go to Lakedaemon, stranger passing by;
And say there, that in obedience to her law, here we lie"
Mostly on a dare or to show off. Pretty harmless I guess, although one time, I know those strange lights was a flying saucer chasing us [|)]. I guess we got away.[;)]
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Ive never heard of anyone snorting alchohol but I have heard of it being injected right into the bloodstream.Bad mojo there.The most dangerous drink out right now is Red Bull and Vodka.
I hear that, I never used to even like vodka, but ever since I tried it with redbull, I've been neglecting my good friend Jack D.[;)]
Sounds like a waste of good sipping whiskey to me.
I was taught better than that. He still gets to frequent a small glass of ice occasionally.
Up until you started in on the Everclear...then you'd have nasal passages that look like hamburger.
Can't imagine anyone doing that, though. I can barely drink it, much less do a snooter. *shudders*
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What is smelled and detected is alcohol being exhaled from the lungs, where direct contact of air and blood occur in the alveoli.
IV and enema administration of booze serve to get one drunk without the sometimes nausea, and use much less booze to do it.
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I was at me brothers house and he,his girlfriend,one of her friends(Cathie) and myself were tying a good one on.
So...Cathie asks me if I had ever snorted vodka and I reply..."hell no I ain't never snorted vodka!!".She says"It'll f**k you up!!"
I say"I'll bet...let's see you do it".
So she takes an empty beer can and turns it upside down,fills the bottom up with vodka,sticks her nose in it and....."SNORT"!!
I'm sitting there kinda dumbfounded[:0]waiting for a reaction.I say "Do it again".She fills er up again...and I'm watchin her,albeit,not close enough.She sticks her nose in that vodka and "SNORT"!!..."DAM",I say.
...."Well,If YOU can do it,I dam sure know I can",I tell her.
So she fills er up again...I stick my nose down deep and...."SNORT"!!!
...and I thought the side of my head was gonna burn off and I realized I had been HAD.Course the all got a GOOD laugh.Screwed my sinus up for a week.
She wasn't snorting that dang ole vodka,she was suckin it in through her mouth.She would put the edge of her lip on the can and her nose in the vodka and I tell ya.....it looked like she was snortin it!!
Good trick to play on somebody though[:o)]
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