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Doctors are warning about
a dangerous new trend among
some teenagers and college
kids: Smoking alcohol.
Experts say it can have dangerous and sometimes deadly
consequences.
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Director of the Georgia Poison
Center Dr. Gaylord Lopez said smoking
alcohol is like a night of binge drinking in
an instant.
“We don’t know about the potential for
brain damage. There’s a risk of alcohol
poisoning and the risk of alcohol overdose.
People have died from alcohol intoxication
so this may just be a quicker way to that
tragic end,” Lopez said.
There are not only homemade kits sold
on the Internet, but experts told Davis some
abusers have adapted ordinary tobacco
hookahs to smoke alcohol
Experts say it’s the quick absorption of
the alcohol from the hookah that makes it
so dangerous, instead of absorbing alcohol
through the stomach and the liver.
According to Lopez, smoking alcohol
sends it straight to the lungs and brain,
which eliminates the body’s warning signs
that you’ve had too much.
“You know you start getting sick to your
stomach, you throw up, and everyone is
familiar with that. But now, with this new
method, you bypass that altogether. So
those early warning signals that tell you
that you’d better slow down are no longer
there,” Lopez told Davis.
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Parents may not know about
smoking alcohol but Channel 2’s
Diana Davis found out your kids
may have already seen it on the
Internet and YouTube.
You can also still get a DUI just the same
as you can if you drink alcohol.
Lopez’s warning for parents is to be on
the lookout for paraphernalia and watch
their children.
“They can easily figure out how to do a kit
themselves. Parents need to be careful of
what’s going on,” warns Lopez.
Experts said some of the videos on the
Internet lure kids with false promises like
they can hide it from their parents or
police.
Some also promise it’s a legal way for
minors to use alcohol. The truth is, it’s
against the law for anyone under 21.
| North Dakota Spring/Summer 2014 | abusemagazine.org
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