Friday, February 02, 2007

Hand sanitizer: a good buzz?

Ethanol -based hand sanitizer will now be contraband in treatment programs, jails and prisons:
Prison officials and poison control centers can add a new substance to their list of intoxicants -- hand sanitizer. A usually calm 49-year-old prisoner prompted a call to the Maryland Poison Control Center after guards found him red-eyed, combative and "lecturing everyone about life." Other inmates and staff reported the unidentified prisoner had been drinking from a gallon container of hand sanitizer, which is more than 70 per cent alcohol, or over 140 proof

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