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[Sooner]

I feel sorry for those people.  It is a problem, not a lack of intelligence.  They should not have bottled it like that to begin with.  But is is a sad sad thing.  

[shoesnbags]

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@SusieQ_2 wrote:

Has it been reported why people are drinking it? I've seen videos of hand sanitizer being produced in bottles that are made to resemble alcohol bottles. I don't know if it's bootleg or not. Here's an example:

   

Granted the bottles are clearly marked but I wouldn't be surprised if some people aren't bothering to read the labels.

I don't know if that has anything to do with it but...maybe? 

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@SusieQ_2 

The reason some sanitizers are in bottles that look like liquor bottles is that many small distilleries jumped in to produce sanitizer temporarily instead of liquor.  Some in my area did this and donated all of it to local hospitals, but many companies are selling on the open market.  They are using what they have on hand re labels, bottles, etc.  Here is an article about this:

www.distilledspirits.org/distillers-responding-to-covid-19/distilleries-making-hand-sanitizer/

[Kachina624]

I did a double take at that bottle.  I thought it said it was made in California but there's a South Fork in Colorado right at the foot of the mountains along the Rio Grande that looks like the label.

[Desertdi]

I thought it was the South Fork Ranch from the TV show "Dallas".   I only watched one episode, "Who Shot JR", because of the hype.    I wasn't thrilled............    

[gardenman]

I briefly went to high school with an idiot who would drink aftershave and cologne. If you left your gym locker unlocked he'd drain the aftershave. He would also raid the home ec room for the vanilla extract. The chem lab used to have small alcohol burners and they had to be locked away or he'd sneak in and drink the alcohol out of them. He had lots of counseling but didn't care. If there was alcohol on the ingredients, he'd drink it. His family moved into town for less than one full school year, then moved on again. The kid had serious mental health/intelligence issues. I think his family kept moving every time he got in trouble. He'd go into local grocery stores and just gulp down vanilla extract. He'd go into drug stores and gulp down aftershave. He had issues.

[dancingwoman]

@Kachina624   Looks like it is California...I had to check it out because I hadn't heard of this one in CO...lol...not that I know all the distilleries here...DW

[bikerbabe]

If you work a psych unit or a drug rehab, there’s no hand sanitizer in areas that can be accessed by patients due to the alcohol content.

[Mindy D]

Drinking wood alcohol is not new, but trying to drink hand sanitizer is on an upward swing due to its high ubiquitousness during the epidemic.

Today the most common cause of blindness from drinking is methanol. Methanol, methyl alcohol or wood alcohol, can damage the optic nerve and even kill  in high concentrations. During Prohibition, bootleggers would often sell moonshine that contained methanol, and the practice is still found in many countries. drinking isopropyl alcohol

[esmerelda]

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@Goldengate8361 wrote:

Sounds like some more treatment programs are needed for alcoholism......and we all know how likely (unlikely) that is to happen these days...Very sad.

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@Goldengate8361  Gosh, are all the current treatment programs full up?