HAND SANITIZER TEENS NEWEST SUBSTANCE ABUSE (625 hits)
NATIONAL NEWS: APRIL 2012 23RD DAY
Abuse of substances usually always finds its way to teens and the latest reports indicate that hand-santizers are becoming the newest buzz. Six teens in San Fernando Valley were taken to emergency with symptoms resulting from of alcolhol posionings. The six teens were dangerously ill after drink the santizers straight from it's dispenser. Reportely, some of the teens mixed the hand santizer with salt to isolate the ethyl alcohol turning the contents in more a liquid form for drinking.
This of course, has proven shocking and an alarming trend forming among teens, however it's not a new to substances teens uses to get drunk or high; others include sniffing glue and drinking large doses of cough syrup. The six teens in this latest emerge arrived at local hospitals with slurred speech and burning sensations in their stomachs. The alarming effect has a exceeding fast reaction time which gives a quick drunk within minutes of consumption. Alcolhol proofs in the santizers run about 62 percent etynol and distilled it can become as much as 120 proof. At first the teens denied they had taken the santizer, but later admitted of their consumption. What fears most parents, and medical community is the continued possiblities of abuse and perhaps where death may be caused from taking the lastest substance continually.
It's always something with teens, they have so much more to explore than getting drunk with dangerous substances. "Wake Up!" "We got to teach the babies"...that's what Teddy Pendergrass sang.. ..................."Songs from Ole School really have a message for teens today." ...............
I hear you Miisrael. I think that the teens of today are much more wreckless than our day. They are exposed to far too, much because of the social media and outlets. These things are dangerous and we need to expose them to the truth about the dangers of experimenting with cleaning solutions and things in those catagories.